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Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:36:29 -0400
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Re: [idm] nike ad
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Anig Browl wrote:
quoted 8 lines That new Nike commercial with all the basketball dudes doing tricks is> > That new Nike commercial with all the basketball dudes doing tricks is > > totally IDM, man. > > Stop me if I'm horribly off-topic, but is that a good thing? It's not that > I'm against IDM becoming more popular, or musicians making a living from > selling a soundtrack to an ad. But when music gets commercialised, it > usually seems to wind up getting sanitised as well as bigger labels try to > find some easy formula for making big bucks in a consistent way.
This is inevitable, you just gotta get used to it. And get used to the fact that IDM _is_ commercial, accessible and relatively undemanding music when it comes down to it. Andrei --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org