On Mon, 27 Jun 1994, Luke Youngblood wrote:
quoted 3 lines This was extremely surprising to me, because Request magazine is> This was extremely surprising to me, because Request magazine is
> almost more mainstream than Rolling Stone, and here they had an issue
> devoted to techno.
Something more mainstream than Rolling Stone? That's pretty impressive.
(send all flames to rollingstone@echonyc.com)
quoted 3 lines They covered the Milwaukee Drop Bass Network,> They covered the Milwaukee Drop Bass Network,
> Aphex Twin, Terrence Mckenna, and other "rave" culture icons. They
> also had an article titled "Why I Hate Techno..."
Terrence is cool, but who let him become a "rave icon"? It's not like
DMT is a party drug or anything :) Sigh.
quoted 5 lines The underground is now officially mainstream... It's been cooked up> The underground is now officially mainstream... It's been cooked up
> and served to a whole new market in our consumer-driven society.
> Now, your upper-middle-class kids can probably expect to buy Richard
> James binkies at their favorite local mega-supermarket for their
> first trip on E... Isn't capatalism great?
Actually, if teeny boppers want to twist to the new Reload album or
sink their head into an Analogue Bubblebath, I say let them... but
what's more likely is that Sony will ask Underworld and the Dust
Brothers to remix Michael Jackson's next single. Let's NOT start
a thread about "underground" and "commercialism".
BTW, I just got the Blade Runner soundtrack on CD - and if any of you
think that what the current crop of IDM artists is doing is totally
unique, listen to this for a little, er, history lesson...
Brian