On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, Skye Merlin Poier wrote:
quoted 13 lines And verily GOD WITHIN doth spake unto thee:> And verily GOD WITHIN doth spake unto thee:
> > actually i had heard that MTV was on the verge of exploiting the underground
> > dance scene by putting it into the box so millions of people will be able to
> > "rave" during their family dinner time. is this true? is this media attention
> > really what the dance scene needs?
>
> Whatever MTV do, they wont be able to exploit the "underground" dance scene
> since 99.99% of all the tunes have no videos (unless MTV wants to run test
> pattern and play the songs) so I don't think we have to worry about that. I'm
> sure that all the big commercial promoters are looking for something new to
> destroy now that grunge is totally meaningless, and I wouldn't be suprised if
> they were looking this way. I don't really think this scene is ever really
> going to "break" tho...
Well there are more commercial "techno" tunes with videos (and some
not-so-commercial, as in Future Sound of London and Aphex Twin)... MTV
Europe airs them quite a bit, from what I've seen on this list... I have
a feeling that MTV will break "rave" in the states with stuff like Rick
Rubin's importing of Digital Orgasm et al, the more commercial stuff with
pretty popstar faces. However, I don't think this will make a
difference, as most scenes have progressed past the point where
exploitation will kill them. Maybe even some smaller, rural scenes will
benefit. But most of the urban scenes are pretty well-developed and
could weather that sort of thing.
Unless, of course, they decide to steal what's going on in SF...
Peace,
Matt
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