quoted 5 lines interesting, reading this actually made me angry.....> interesting, reading this actually made me angry.....
>
> -brock
>
> p.s. dont mean to start a country battle, but why is it that the UK seems
to
quoted 1 line have such a twisted and arrogant view of electronic music as a whole?> have such a twisted and arrogant view of electronic music as a whole?
Oh come now, a little hyperbole never hurt anybody... ;-)
But seriously, what is it that you really object to? This project is not
about saying 'isn't this UK music brilliant, why don't you all kneel down
and worship it?'. It's not about some stupid nationalist agenda. It's about
trying to set up fertile, enriching, multi-directional networks of influence
and counter-influence. It's about trying to draw attention to a very
exciting form of music which *just happens* to come from the UK, in the hope
that people all over the world will find it as fascinating and enjoyable as
I do, and will thereby be encouraged to contribute something of their own to
it (or even to twist it into outlandish and unrecognisable shapes). How can
this be 'twisted and arrogant'? You seem to think I'm saying that there's
something about 2-step which makes it more worthy of attention than any
other form of music around at the moment. Yes, 2-step 'demands' a response,
but so does all great music. So did disco. So did hip hop. So did lots of
other genres which were never heard outside of the areas where they
developed, and so never had the chance to make the impact they potentially
could have (Detroit techno was very, very lucky not to suffer this fate). At
this moment in time there are probably half a dozen types of music existing
in the US which are just as exciting as 2-step, all of which I'd love to
hear, all of which I desperately NEED to hear. But how am I ever going to
get the chance if I'm not made aware of their existence? How will I ever be
able to respond to them when people such as yourself present any attempt at
the outernational elaboration of localised forms as the arrogant gesturing
of bigoted cultural supremacists?
Ooh, it makes me mad (to quote another Brit export, John Cleese).
Gareth Metford
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