On Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:56:14 GMT+2,
Matthew D. Smith <a72928@chilloutroom.eskom.co.za> wrote:
quoted 1 line Robert Miles :-( that's not IDM that's pure bladdy bullshite!!!!>Robert Miles :-( that's not IDM that's pure bladdy bullshite!!!!
I just wonder how much of this is caused by the track being hugely
overplayed on radio and TV. When it was still just a club track (in
November/December last year !!), it was an absolute floorfiller in all the
'proper' clubs and everybody loved it. Then the mass media picked it up...
Same thing happened for instance to 'Give it up' - Goodmen and Jaydee's
'Plastic Dreams'.
It's a strange situation: media always get picked on for not being in clue
with today's music and for keeping rock dinosaurs alive. Even when they pay
attention to today's music, they only look at happy hardcore (*shudder*)
and not at what's beyond.
Then, a pure club track gets picked up by the media, they hype it to
unbelievable heights, thereby destroying it, even for the people who liked
the track when it was just a club anthem and had not been commercialized
yet.
I've always hoped that someday, mass media would really pay attention to
techno. You know, Jeff Mills on the cover of the Rolling Stone, Black Dog
on Top Of The Pops, that kinda stuff, thereby exposing more people to (what
I consider) good music. Over the past few years though, I've seen so many
examples of bad coverage of the techno scene, that I wonder whether that
would not destroy the scene instead of helping it. Maybe the media should
just leave us alone, let the techno scene do it's own thing. After all, it
has come this far without help from the media, so why would we need it now?
Still, I wish it were different...
Otto, who's feeling rather gloomy today