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From:
Kent williams
To:
i'd do mary
Date:
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:02:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:
Re: [idm] idm list bashing
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You know, Miguel (kid606) is a smart guy. From my contact with him, is as much about spreading peace, love and understanding in the world as the next person. I had a pretty long conversation with him when he was here about music biz, the internet, yada yada. I hate to break it to you, the IDM list is fairly far down his list of concerns. If he mentions it in interviews, well, the IDM list is a target of opportunity -- there are people and institutions he's way more annoyed by, but politically it would be a bad thing to slag them in print. Any smart guy who wants to have a career doing this kind of music knows about the IDM list, and has to come to some sort of understanding of it. They know that the subscribers here are the early adopters -- the ones that start the word of mouth buzz that's essential to moving product. On the other hand they know that a sizable percentage of the people here are cranks with no lives, as obsessive and irritating as the worst trekkies in bad Klingon latex appliances; so they don't take it any more seriously than they absolutely must. And people who are actually working at making music don't have time for the kind of petty crap that goes on here. Those that can, do. Those that can't, subscribe to IDM. And yes I'm a producer, and yes I'm on IDM. Make of that what you will... On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, jason w wrote:
quoted 7 lines --- Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu>> --- Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu> > > wrote: > >It seems to me that every interview with the Kid takes this angle. > >Every single one is like "Dude!!!! Kid 606 is declaring war on the > >dorky IDM scene! He's gonna tear it a new asshole! Also, he hates the > >IDM list and he thinks its for losers!" > >
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