At 07:35 PM 7/11/96 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 2 lines i don't have to explain how Mtv ruins, yes they ruin by co opting>>>>>>i don't have to explain how Mtv ruins, yes they ruin by co opting
>artists, the specific genre they are exploiting.
I, for one, WANT all this stuff to be on Mtv. That's right, 24 hours of
Aphex Squarepusher Autechre, Coldcut, Panik Trax, with the most wacked out
videos on the channel (like it will ever happen, but I'm hoping). I will
probably have moved on to the rad music that the popularization of these
artists inspires, though, but that's what I'm after--rad music. Speed up
history, people, don't stagnate it like a bunch of Bon Jovi fans.
I'm so sick and over this "it's OUR music, and THEY can't have it"
mentality. How much of this music would you have in your collection if
selfish idiots just kept it for themselves, an esPECIally vivid proposition
given all the no-sunlight bedroom geeks that make this stuff (yo, myself
included). And hey, if someone's going to reap all this cash that's flowing
through MTV exposure, shouldn't one of them be that guy from rephlex (think
of it, they wouldn't have any other excuses beyond laziness for a sporadic
release schedule)? I try to turn everyone I can onto the music I like
because I want the more newer stuff that influxes of ideas bring to music.
Fuck you.
eric