Re: We need more serious criticism of techno! (long rant)
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My first response to this thread was : We are all impatient. Music history is
not decided now, but later, after it is obvious in hindsight what was
important and what wasn't. Because, the truly brilliant music will survive.
But now, I'm not so sure if quality will survive - or even see the light of
day compared with shit that sells double platinum. Skepticism prevails. But I
do agree that techno/electronic music in general needs to be considered
seriously by everyone involved if it is to survive. I don't mean "don't have
fun". I mean the more thought people put into the music the better. I get
really tired of hearing stuff that sounds like it was just slapped together.
This reminds me of my reaction to a quote related to Peter Kuhlman (Namlook).
He claimed that most of his music takes less than a week to create, however,
"Air" took two to three weeks. I like Namlook music - my point is that I
think Air is his best work. The fact that it took the longest makes sense to
me because I think he thought about how to make it good for a longer amount
of time, and it turned out better that way. If he would stop making a record
every other day and maybe spent a month or two ( gasp! shocking ! ) to make
just one record, it might be really great. On the other hand, Mozart wrote
music pretty damn fast too ( not that I think that Peter is Mozart ).