quoted 63 lines afo wrote:>afo wrote:
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>> im sorry but i disagree... once anything (any kind of expression)
>> is brought into the mainstream and is "commercialised" it loses its
>> original quality of being pure, innovative, or groundbreaking...c'mon
>> when 3rd graders start totting blackdog lunchboxes to school
>> youll see what i mean (of course im making a gross exaggeration)
>
>i've never actually owned a lunch-box, but i might go for one if it
>featured that nifty horse-thingy off of spanners...
>
>> when i say purity im talkin bout the idea of how electronica
>> now exists beneath pop culture...its created for people that
>> are truely into the music, not for the hopeless trendies
>> riding the wave of something thats cool for now... artists know
>> this and honestly create brilliant innovative, provacative tunes
>> knowing their bona fide audience will respond...we're in it cuz we're
>> into it, not because its a cool thing to do for now.
>
>this all should be about some people's playfulness and creativity and
>others' appreciation of these.. as someone recently pondered; do u
>actually think idm-related artists would take hints from major labels,
>mtv or even lunchbox manufacturers?
>
>> if electronica gets pushed up into the mainstream the music
>> will lose its purity, it will be evently churned out quickly and
>> halfheartedly for the trendies, innovation and experimentation given
>> a back seat. itll become essentially a moneymaking "hip-nu-thing"
>> for entities like mtv, coke, (any huge label) etc. and again more trendies
>> will be brainwished into it becuz...its on mtv and coke commercials
>> ...so its gotta be cool-un-dope.
>
>u're talking about the 'scene' related to electronica... yeah, so it
>would suffer.. n' u would be squished up against newly departed
>indiekids while on concerts. but then again those indiekids would make
>it possible n' plausible for smaller acts to come to ..well.. sweden,
>just to name a place they haven't been:) and ppl like me wouldn't have
>to order their stuff from places like 4th world, god bless'em, and
>wouldn't have to plough through 60 emails every day to find out what
>they might be missin' and maybe i could actually pursue some other
>things in life outside these wretched idm artists thass been makin' me
>smile the last 18 months or so. as it's laid out now u have to be
>involved at a level thass way above what i consider normal for anyone
>not professionally into music or the industry around it. and i think
>these musical styles and their artists are way too good to be hooked up
>to a ball n' chain like that.
>
>> i want to spend my life thinkin im darn cool and i want you to be darn cool
>> too Oskar...
>>
>> thanks, but no thanks,,,
>>
>> afo at mt.osikanawa design labs.1998
>
>well thanx, u too, mr afo. u seem like a pleasent person.
>
>on now: nirvana - smells like teen spirit (yeah well.. sp's one sort of
>virtue
> n'
>honesty's another:)
>--
>Oskar Andersson aka Dj Mono
> - mono@tbm.scicom.se -
and there you go....
afo at mt.osikanawa design labs.1998