Culture
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Groove Fellowships: The How To
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Written by Pat D, Saturday 15 September, 2007
Electronic rhythms pulsate from speakers inside a fellowship hall. Dj’s wield their skills behind a set of turntables. A group hovers around a Bible and prayers go up. A laptop sends a music stream to listeners across the globe. The So Cal Groove Fellowship is a wide assortment of dj’s, music producers and music enthusiasts who meet together once a month for support, food, a live internet broadcast and networking.
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The Future of Tastyfresh
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So What’s in a Website?
Yeah, that’s the question that constantly is in my mind when I’m not writing music or gaming. About two years ago now, I rebuilt Tastyfresh.com into its fourth, fifth or sixth iteration depending on how you look at it. The focus of the site though was not on adding new features, ultra-cool design, or even increased usability for the site. All of these probably should have been considered though. The focus of the redesign though was actually just moving all content that wasn’t a part of the forum from static web pages to a dynamic content management system.
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Effectively Bringing Unity to Our Scene: Part IV – A Tale of Two Laodiceas
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Laodicea was a town in the southwest of what today is Turkey. It is also the site of one of the earliest Christian churches. Laodicea is mentioned in two places within the Bible. The first is in Paul’s letter to the Colossians and then again in the book of Revelation. The contrast between these two mentions is astounding. In fact, it is so astounding that it is something we really need to think about as we are discussing not only what it means for our scene to be united, but as we decide what direction this scene will take and what the cornerstone theology of this movement will be.
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Effectively Bringing Unity to Our Scene: Part III – The Powers of Tastyfresh
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The first article in this series seemed to have raised some hot bottom issues. I knew that some of what I said would not go over very well, but it did what I had hoped it would and sparked a very productive discussion on the forums. The main concern that evolved in the discussion over last months article circled around one issue… a fear of inflexible central control. Let me assure all of you that such a thing was very far away from anything I was considering when I wrote the article. It has been a fear that I have been aware of for years now and it is one that I believe has kept us from growing and developing as a scene. In fact, you could make a very strong and convincing argument that there really isn’t a Christian EDM scene… there is seemingly only Tastyfresh when it comes to a global movement.
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Effectively Bringing Unity to Our Scene: Part II – A Look at the Unity of Our Scene
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The population here at Tastyfresh is very diverse in two specific areas: political views and spiritual views. No matter which side of these debates a person is on, their views of politics and God are mashed together in ways that seem diametrically opposed to someone else on the site. This isn’t the root cause of our disorganization or disunity, but it is a conduit to quickly explain some of our issues.
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Effectively Bringing Unity to Our Scene Part I:
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This article is the first in what will be a serious of discussions regarding unity in our scene. There is no doubt that we have been less united in the past, but are we really as united as we think we are and could we become even more closely united? This is exactly what I hope to examine over the course of the next several issues. Enough of the intro, let’s dive into the meat.
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How To Build A Local Scene - Part One
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Written by Shana Gray, Thursday 15 September, 2005
The building blocks of any scene are the people in it. The talent, events organizers, and anyone and everyone who gets involved to help out, show support, or show up at events. You can't have a scene without all the crucial elements - mainly people, talent, skills, equipment, and support - so building excitement and getting people involved is a major priority. What it comes down to is building community.
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What should the number one goal of Christians in the EDM scene be?
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In the last issue we asked you to tell us what our number one goal should be as Christians in the EDM scene. We’ve talked a lot about this in the forums over the years and we have had many different answers. This proved to provide just as many as in past discussions. All of them fit into three categories. So, here are the summaries with some of the best quotes.
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Christianity and the Dance Scene I
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I’ll be totally honest here. This is about the tenth time that I’ve started over on this article series. You would think that it would be a simple topic, but it really isn’t. Part of the reason for the difficulty in writing an article series about Christianity and the dance scene is that there is so much to explain and so many different viewpoints and reasoning about it.
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July 2004's Opinion of the Month
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Back in July, we asked basically two questions. The first was “What should we as Christians do to have an even greater impact on the electronic dance community?” The second question was “Give an example of a person who is currently having a substantial impact and what that impact is.” We received a larger number of responses this time and I hope that this trend continues. Let’s see what our readers said.
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A Tastyfresh Download Exclusive!!!!
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It is Tastyfresh.com’s proud pleasure to make Jamey’s Lightshine EP and final track available to you this month. Please download and enjoy and if you see Jamey on the boards here, thank him for the music. Also, please thank our own Tim Toll (Tolldog) for providing the bandwidth for these files.
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