Re: [idm] damn jazz shit - DELETE if you don't like nitpickyness
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I have to say that most of the really bad music which I get to hear is not
produced by Joe Average and his cheap electronic kit but by big industry
producers. I don't think it's modern music technology beyond the ability to
record music on vinyl which is responsible for this.
Ross.
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From: Intermodal <Chrome3@ix.netcom.com>
To: Kelley Hackett <khackett@aba.iupui.edu>
Cc: 'James R McPherson ' <andregurov@juno.com>; <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] damn jazz shit - DELETE if you don't like nitpickyness
quoted 18 lines Hello,> Hello,
>
> I have to agree with Kelly on this one. I think that modern music
> technology has wrecked music in a way. The continuing goal has been to
> make music cheaper and easier to create, but not necessarily to make it
> better. It could be said that cheap computers and music software has
> been responcible for unleashing an utter titlewave of shite music on the
> world.
>
> It has always been that medocrity has dominated the world, as we are by
> and large a medocre species. But now we have given people who do not
> want to put much effort into making music the ability to create and
> release music. I can appreciate the democratizing effect cheap equipment
> has had, but do we really need all this bang-wagon music that is being
> released now. Even the releases that are being lauded on this list are
> not always that great, and I doubt they will still be relevant in 5
> years when their idm snob novelty value has worn off.
>
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