According to your _major label music = product_ mentality the work of The
Beatles, Miles Davis, The Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, The
Clash (just to name a few seminal musical figures who recorded for major
labels) and pretty much every important classical composer is just
meaningless "product" while the work of 2nd and 3rd rate Autechre clones
is pure art.
Andrei
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Matthew Burrows wrote:
quoted 18 lines as u2 are on a major label, they are part of the corporate establishment.> as u2 are on a major label, they are part of the corporate establishment.
> therefore, while not wishing to be nasty to individuals (although bono is
> certainly a confused man: wishing to free the world's poorest from debt,
> whilst hanging out with the pope), the words and gestures are essentially
> meaningless, as he is a part of the problem he slags off
>
>
> >I would say that much "idm" stuff is actually highly
> >political.
>
> i would say that 'idm' is generally depressingly apolitical...esp.
> considering a lot of it came from the UK rave scene, which had many
> political inklings and the fact that a lot of 'idm' is
> produced/released/distributed independently...after all mu-ziq is signed to
> a major therefore reducing his music/art to product.
>
> as so many of you are very picky about who listens to this stuff, this seems
> a pertinent question.
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