Preach on preacher! Sounds good. Do you have an email contact so we might
send a petition to Warp? I'm game...Fatboyshit and saturn commercials be
gone.
-lee
on 10/20/00 10:43 AM, Benjamin McDonald at warpfan@hotmail.com wrote:
quoted 64 lines okay,
> okay,
> I don't think this has been addressed/or maybe it has:
> Is it me, or is Astralwerks killing the crap out of good artists? Last year,
> Paradinas released the biggest let down album of the year, this year, the
> prize goes to Photek. Is it just plain coincident that Astralwerks (skint)
> are the pushers of these two flops?
> After 'Lunatic Harness' i was all pins and needles to hear the follow-up
> from Mu-ziq, but, god damnit, i would rather have no more Mu-albums than
> hear that piece of commercial crap(the "d&b in idm" discussion comes in
> here). I love GanggStarr as much as the next white boy, but come on, pick a
> little less know clip to loop (yall need to cut that greedy ass......)(this
> could be next discussion WORST sample ever).
> Then, after watching and waiting for, -what has it been, 2 years?-photek
> decides to release a new album. "RAD!" people say, another twisted, sick
> beat album. Not really IDM, but we expect awesome stuff anyway because of
> the intelligent nature of his style of D&B. So, was i the only one let down
> when i went to the record shop to hear this new gem? the look of horror on
> my face when i heard (vomit-wince) house style vocals cracked up the entire
> store, who had gone through the same puke inducing realization that this
> once viable and creative artist had pulled a 'Royal Astronomy', with dreams
> of sound clips in Saturn commercials and soundtrack slots on NewLine horror
> flicks no doubt the cause of this Oakenfold ready crapper of a album. I BET
> MY LEFT BALL THAT ONE OF THESE TRACKS WILL BE ON A GLOBAL UNDERGROUND
> RELEASE SOMEDAY!
> my conclusion is this:
> ASTRALWERKS IS THE ROOT OF ALL COMMERCIAL EVIL IN AMERICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC!
> Since the commercial success of Fatboyshit, with his ever present, annoying,
> bullshit of bubblegum beats and production, the company demands nothing more
> than "a hot seller". "no shit", you may be saying to yourself,"we knew about
> this all along. why should i care now?"
> this is why:
> Warp, who i am obviously a massive fan of, recently signed a contract to
> have their releases put out in America (yeaaaaaa!!) by caroline records
> (booooooo,hisss!!). Caroline=Astralwerks.
> This may be extreme, but i say we start a campaign to get warp out of this
> devil deal. not saying that warp artists will lose control over direction
> and personal style, but when Caroline cant move platinum numbers of, lets
> say Jamie Lidell _Muddlin' Gear_, what will they say to warp??? "you know,
> it doesn't sell because its not ACCESSIBLE enough" or "its TOO DARK for
> commercial success". The music label business is a big mofo, breach of
> contract sits well to U.S. courts. Caroline can claim that Warp is not
> filling its side of the deal by not providing a product that can sell. Ugly,
> it will turn.
> So, BE WARNED (hahaha_)!!
> If my language is harsh and abrasive, sorry, its a bitch of a time to live
> in (haha_), get your head out of your stuffy ass.
> be pissed about the manhandling of the arts in america, its the only way to
> enact a change.
> out
> benine
> "my escalator stops for no one"
> unread,unedited,rantedandsent
>
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