quoted 6 lines According to your _major label music = product_ mentality the work of The>According to your _major label music = product_ mentality the work of The
>Beatles, Miles Davis, The Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, The
>Clash (just to name a few seminal musical figures who recorded for major
>labels) and pretty much every important classical composer is just
>meaningless "product" while the work of 2nd and 3rd rate Autechre clones
>is pure art.
The independent label was "virtually" non-existent when Louis A., Miles, so
forth were recording and the release of music was co-ordinated along other
lines - rather than goal for profit, so forth, Miles signed a deal so he
could afford equipment etc to record etc in studios etc and did not have to
live on £ for live performances alone and also bootlegs were stopped which
landed him with no money whatsoever (check his biography). while the stop
bootleg motive is questionable, the drive for smiles was to be able to make
more music in ways he believed he wanted. Far more questionable though is
citing The Beatles, Dylan, and even Der Clash as bands who made "pure (?)
art (?)" - the compulsion for The Beatles and Dylan was not a la
Aphex/whoever ("I want to make music") it was entirely fuelled by shite -
though Beatles/Dylan 'hated the suits' i've read a number of interviews
where they call song/music ideas "unfeasible" and so forth "who would want
to listen that? who would buy that?". The original post raises the far more
important question, though, of politics and, oh, "idm". Aphex quotes like "I
want to make music and never get a job" are appealing as fantasies for the
many, yet more than hint at the sort of individualism Thatcher, Reagan, Bush
etc etc encouraged. Sort of.
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