keyboard magazine, etc
First of all, remember that Keyboard is a mainstream magazine that wants to sell
lots of copies to keyboard professionals. Now realize that the majority of
keyboards are NOT sold to techno artists. We're way outnumbered by rock bands,
country bands, lounge singers, etc. Techno is a fractional minority. We're not
important. Now, it's amazing enough that Keyboard even bothered to talk about
us at all. And while I'm personally bummed that they wasted more column inches
on already-popular-enough bands like AFX and Orbital, it's hardly surprising.
Obviously the majority of that article came from an interview done at the NASA
See The Light stop in San Francisco.
Same thing happened back when they (keyboard) did their "cyberpunk" issue and
interviewed "big" bands like Front Line Assembly. I bet the angry letters in
next month's letter column will be eerily reminiscent of that whole deal as
well.
Just get used to it. Mainstream press coverage of IDM will never change.
Oh, and speaking of press/IDM... watch for a forthcoming interview with Future
Sound Of London in the pages of WIRED magazine. Apparently FSOL are totally
excited about doing this one as they feel that WIRED is one of the few rags with
anything useful to say.
Finally, I like Duran Duran a lot, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it,
Darshan!
grumpily yours,
/jon