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anti-consumerism is not elitism! you must know the enemy to fight the enemy.
find out more at
http://www.adbusters.org
i'm thouroughly enjoying going out to logo free, "neighborhood sponsored" IDM
events, word of mouth and underground advertising is enough to get our music
out the right people - if we all get mobilized.
-fcb
The Moderator wrote:
quoted 58 lines Wow that's an elitish reply. It's always nice for undergound music to get
> Wow that's an elitish reply. It's always nice for undergound music to get
> some upperground attention. These kind of things keeps the scene going
> because some people will (hopefully) be atracted to this kind of music.
>
> Your fear that commercialism will destroy the undergound is not nesceary.
> Remember that without the upperground there will be no underground!
>
> --
> The Moderator - Groundzero Records
>
> >> That new Nike commercial with all the basketball dudes doing tricks is
> >> totally IDM, man.
> >
> > Stop me if I'm horribly off-topic, but is that a good thing? It's not
> > that I'm against IDM becoming more popular, or musicians making a
> > living from selling a soundtrack to an ad. But when music gets
> > commercialised, it usually seems to wind up getting sanitised as well
> > as bigger labels try to find some easy formula for making big bucks in
> > a consistent way.
> >
> > On the one hand, it may seem petty that people who've got into some
> > 'underground' music like IDM or techno or whatever don't want to be
> > overrun by hordes of weenies who just had it handed to them on a plate
> > by MegaCorp. And it's true that many artists who loudly proclaim that
> > they would never sell out have never been asked to :-)
> >
> > But when an artist (or a genre) gets plucked out of obscurity by some
> > large corporate concern and turned into the new 'big thing', there
> > often follows a brief feeding frenzy as the competition tries to carve
> > up the little market that has just been discovered and stake out their
> > niches in it. For example there are a lot of small hip-hop labels that
> > are just subsidiaries of large media companies, and they don't really
> > contribute much. With that sort of sponsorship, a lot of bland, safe
> > music gets released, and genuinely independent companies have to
> > compete with the much larger promotion and distribution operations that
> > the big-media labels can draw on.
> >
> > I hope this doesn't sound paranoid or reactionary, and I certainly
> > don't want to discourage anyone from buying a good record, whoever
> > releases it. It just seems to me that fashion is a very hungry beast,
> > and after it has moved on there is often less for the small
> > players/labels to get by on.
> >
> > Anig Browl
> >
> >
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