I debated awhile about posting this, but I have to get it off my chest.
In several conversations about this list with other netters who are
now (former) subscribers to this list, many commented that they were
turned off by what they perceived as a snobby vibe. Sorry to say it, but
all too many times I've seen novice posters scared off from here
with a curt "sorry, discussion of that stuff doesn't belong here."
We all know that calling one batch of stuff "intelligent dance music"
doesn't somehow mean that anything else that isn't discussed here
is automatically "unintelligent", but that's sure how it looks to the
outside world.
The problem is that the net currently lacks a decent general forum for
the discussion of creative dance music. Alt.rave is overrun by
testosterone-fueled jokers with mammoth sigs, and the regional rave lists
are, by their nature, not the ideal forum for delving deeply into recent
releases. I'm not sure that there's anything we can do about this (or if
we should even try), but this little flame-up here is a symptom of
the larger disease.
| Dave Walker, Detroit Art Services (DAS) -- marmoset@msen.com |
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