*not*
Re: AMP, the fact that I was watching these cool videos on some evil
multinational corporate thing did NOT bother me, because I was too busy
absorbing the cool videos to think about that sort of thing. I'm glad MTV
showed them, because to track them down myself would have cost me a lot more
money and time and effort, all of which I would have better spent doing
something else, like, um, tracking down obscure Rephlex 12"s. So what if
Underworld and Autechre eventually get played in malls and we see Aphex logos
on the latest Airwalks? Would that make you stop listening? Would many of our
favorite artists suddenly start putting out crap? Nah. It's true that the
signal/noise ratio would increase. To me that seems like a valid minus for IDM
becoming too popular. But we'd still have the artists we love, and there'll
always be others to seek out. Whatever your opinions about the underground,
there always seems to be an "underground scene" in whichever type of music.
Somewhat unrelated, but Zenon's emails reminded me of what LTJ Bukem said
about the Black Dog - how they used to put out great stuff when they first
started out and were "really" underground - and how there was no more soul in
their music once they became slightly more mainstream, i.e. (Bukem seemed to
imply) they were signed to a slightly more visible label (could he mean...
Warp?). Imagine what a bag full of dogfart they'd put out if they were signed
to Geffen instead of Warp, eh? I don't think so.
Question:
There are three singles coming up from the Headz 2 comp on MoWax. Are the
tracks on the 3 EPs on the comp itself? i.e. are they worth buying?
Thanks.
James Jung-Hoon Seo // Oracle New Media
(415) 506-3829 // jseo@us.oracle.com
I think it must have been the first stage of entertainment. You know, people
just watched people shagging and said, "Well, all right, we did that three
nights running, now let's have a play." // Eric Idle on the old & new media
industry