Hi again,
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Andrew Haley wrote:
quoted 2 lines Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:03:28 +0100> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:03:28 +0100
> These days, vinyl is an elitist medium:
is it?
Still I buy 90% of all my music on vinyl. Why? Well, several reasons.
1. most of my vavourite music is only out on cd.
2. I prefer mixing etc. with vinyl but am willing to change to CD or any
other medium as soon as the technique is acceptable.
quoted 1 line very few reasonably priced vinyl decks are available any more> very few reasonably priced vinyl decks are available any more
really? I saw a lot of bargains for turntables last time in Miami. Cheap
ones (good enough for just listening) and a lot of offers for DJ
turntables. The price for a technics turntable is somehow high but not
much higher as what you would pay for a better CD-player.
quoted 1 line and runs of 1000 or so copies can be mastered on CD.> and runs of 1000 or so copies can be mastered on CD.
of course they can, but why should they. This music is mainly produced for
clubs, for dancing and hardly any techno/house DJ doesn't work with CD's.
For the homelisteners with CD Player you have tons of compilations, some
good, some bad. And BTW, most techno-labels don't earn much money with
their productions! But those people spend all their energy and devotion
(and often a lot of their private money) into this music and that's where
most of what people call IDM here comes from.
quoted 3 lines Damn, I hate elitism, and this is one of its worst forms. The> Damn, I hate elitism, and this is one of its worst forms. The
> attitude is: It's "our" music and we don't want the great masses to
> pollute it.
Elitism is when you keep others out with purpose. It's open to you to get
a turntable and buy vinyl and to go to the clubs, to support local rave
events etc. It's not elitism, it's your choice!
quoted 1 line Question: why is "underground" techno better?> Question: why is "underground" techno better?
What is better?
At least you there wouldn't be techno without "underground" and without
any living "underground" the scene will die sooner or later. You can see
that development with a lot of music/youth scenes in the last 50 years.
Disco f.e. died because of its mass media exploitation. HipHop stayed
alive because of an active "underground". So maybe you should answer the
question of better or not yourself. Me myself and I prefer the
"underground".
take care,
harald