"rj@transelectronic.net" said this re: tigerbeat6 ::
quoted 1 line the point is this, him and his friends are making music they enjoy, and> the point is this, him and his friends are making music they enjoy, and
doing it
quoted 1 line for themselvs, i believe, with a good hearty laugh out loud. they have fun> for themselvs, i believe, with a good hearty laugh out loud. they have fun
and
quoted 1 line release it with out worrying what the masses at large will think about> release it with out worrying what the masses at large will think about
it. i have total
quoted 1 line respect for that. really. i wish more people believed in themselves as> respect for that. really. i wish more people believed in themselves as
much as this
quoted 1 line bunch.> bunch.
here's how I like to think of it: electronic music is all about acronyms.
now, on one hand you have labels and artists who want to be the CIA. they
want to treat IDM (the people on this list) like the great unwashed. they've
got their black sunglasses and dark suits and hi-tech gadgets,... they're
cool, they're badass. they don't talk to IDM, they don't divulge their great
secrets, and behind closed doors they mock the ignorance of IDM. you never
see their faces.
this has pretty much been the standard for labels. you know what i'm talking
about... Skam, Schematic, MAS, etc, etc.
but Tigerbeat6 is trying to change that. rather than view IDM as the
ignorant public, the great unwashed -- we look at IDM as the slightly
unwashed. There are definitely some filthy hicks here, but there's also just
some fun, rowdy kids. Sort of like the audience at a wrestling event. Hence,
our philosophy: the WWF philosophy of IDM. We see IDM as a capacity-crowd at
a WWF pay-per-view event. Sure, some of them are total white trash, but that
doesn't mean you can't still have fun with them, enjoying something you both
like. The WWF philosophy means yeah, I post to the IDM list. Yeah, we write
big long rants on our webpage about our demo policy that is telling you what
other labels won't. Yeah, there's a goofy picture of me on the back on my
album on tb6. etc, etc.
none of that tDR hi-class, nose-up roody-poo monkey crap here, folks. To
us, the music isn't some hi-tech commodity that you buy because we tell you
to (like the CIAs see it) it's a big shared culture/inside joke, like
wrestling is between the fans and the WWF. some people don't get the joke,
and those people can eat a bowl of dicks.
-the rk
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