quoted 5 lines As you (Erkki) may also know, people like Panasonic are keeping alive the>As you (Erkki) may also know, people like Panasonic are keeping alive the
>proud tradition of being "unconventional" or subversive with their music.
>To me, Techno, IDM, Electronica or whatever you want to call it, isa all
>about being subversive and when we stop being subversive, difficult or
>challenging we may as well call it quits.
The underground subversive nature of techno is what really drew me
to it in the first place. Seemed to me to be the perfect way to hack at
the confines of a stagnant and conservatively perverse society. And if it
(techno/rave etc. movement) were to loose this aspect of it, well, we may
as well sell our rdj and autechre rekkids, start buying happy hardcore rave
anthem compilations, and all start doing mass amounts of prozac...
This, to me is most of what the commercial vs underground debate is
all about (no thread intended...) Most of the underground events, and
promoters I've been around seem to have a political agenda of some sort...
not anything overt like "Dole in 96", but at least a consciousness about
societal issues that need addressing, and it seems as though this comes
through, as the kind of people that I meet at these events are generally
like minded...whereas at any of the commercial event I've been to, all I've
come across are mindlessly hepped up kids, still in they're highschool
clique mode, who wouldn't know a social cause if they were one...
case in point... on the subject of fashion and raves, one 17 yr old
raver was quoted as saying... "I don't talk to anyone that's not dressed as
well as I am cause if they're not, they're poor, and if they're poor
they're scum..." hmmmm, lovely, rave consciousness as dictated by
Channel...
Sorry, but I'd much rather see the techno community stick to
examples provided by the likes of UR and the KLF and assault the mainstream
with enough blips and bass to make them see the errors of their ways...
(hey, we can all dream can't we? :)
quoted 4 lines I like Muzlimgause's music, but I hope I don't have to subscribe to his>I like Muzlimgause's music, but I hope I don't have to subscribe to his
>polatics in order to buy it. However his polatics is obviously a big part
>of his life, and if he draws on that for his inspiration that's fair
>enough.
if you can't let your passions show through in your art, the most
fundamental expression of your inner self, then what can you do???
ok, rant mode off, though I'm sure I've forgotten something, hmmmmm
peace
q
on a related (?) note, I'm assuming others have read the burning man
article in Wired... nicely done, especially the last paragraph, and the
part about the guy reading on the 45mph toilet...ok, I'm there next year no
matter what...
By pressing down the special key
it plays a little melody...
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