strange@pipeline.com wrote:
quoted 30 lines On Wed, Aug 28, 1996 8:16:19 AM at AWerks2@aol.com wrote:>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 1996 8:16:19 AM at AWerks2@aol.com wrote:
>
> >AMP will be making it's debut on September 4th after the MTV Video Music
> >Awards. It will also be rebroadcast a couple of times that weekend as
> well.
> >
> >It will feature videos from Sun Electric, Spacetime Continuum, Ken Ishii,
> The
> >Future Sound Of London, Underworld, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Tricky, Chemical
>
> >Brothers, and others...
> >
> >I know we have discussed the merits of the show over the past couple of
> >months, so let's not get into it. IMHO, I feel it is important that we
> >SUPPORT THE SHOW with CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM to MTV.
> >
> >Even if you don't like the show, call MTV and tell them what you DO LIKE.
> If
> >the underground doesn't support this with feedback, positive feedback,
> >they'll take it off, or even worse, make them change the programming to La
>
> >Bouche videos with fractals in them instead of the cutting edge sounds and
>
> >visuals that these artists create.
>
> no disrespect to peter, but......
>
>
> IMHO it is important that we tell mtv to fuck off. Call them and tell them
Can we end this thread now? I am really new to the list and I hate to be the
one to say it but this avant vs popular debate is old hat. It has not been
resolved throughout the history of art criticism and it will not be resolved
here. After Pop-Art and Postmodernity we should be beyond this discussion-old
story, new set.
If people want to watch IDM on MTV, they can; if they don't want to, they don't
have to. Choices are great, aren't they? This IS NOT a major political issue.
Or new territory in cultural development.
Steve Grant
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"We explored the idea that we didn't want to control the circuits.
Whereas everyone
nowadays is obsessed with control-just the opposite of our approach."
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