Very cool posting. Refreshing to read something that doesn't smell like it's
been up it's own or someone elses arse.
I think on principle I'll check some of their releases out and pop to the
website.
Plus I'd never dl any of their stuff from Napster either!
Scott
quoted 66 lines From: Rjyan Kidwell <cex@tigerbeat6.com>
>From: Rjyan Kidwell <cex@tigerbeat6.com>
>To: rj@transelectronic.net, idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] cog606
>Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:31:28 -0400
>
>"rj@transelectronic.net" said this re: tigerbeat6 ::
> > the point is this, him and his friends are making music they enjoy, and
>doing it
> > for themselvs, i believe, with a good hearty laugh out loud. they have
>fun
>and
> > release it with out worrying what the masses at large will think about
>it. i have total
> > respect for that. really. i wish more people believed in themselves as
>much as this
> > 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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