I say we take a (private email) vote and find out how many musicians
are on the list. It would be pretty impressive to see a list of all
the musicians that are here and what tracks they've released. I'm a
musician, perhaps in a different way than most of you here. Most of
my work is remixing. I also have a couple original trance tracks
that I've made, but I don't have any tracks released yet. I've done
quite a few remixes on my Ensoniq ASR-10, my most recent being a
remix of "Dreams" by Quench. Remixing is great when you've got room
for 184 seconds of CD-quality stereo samples in memory.
In regards to your depression, I get equally depressed when wading
through 2 weeks and about 500 messages of people trying to figure out
the names of the tracks on SAWII. What I'm getting at is this:
What's the point to all of this blabbing on about insignificant
things. It seems as if people are more concerned with what color of
vinyl, or what the sleeve looks like, or what the track times are,
then they are with the music itself.
Believe me, America is far behind Europe in just about everything,
techno included. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we've been
plagued because the popular "alternative" radio station here started
in the '80s, and picked up their favorite UK synth pop format, and
hasn't changed format since they started. They actually pride
themselves on playing what they call "modern" music which was
actually dead in the '80s. The interesting side-note to all of this
is that just recently, in a local record store, I saw a bulletin
saying that they've started giving William Orbit "Water from a Vine
Leaf" lots of air time. I even heard it on that station once, and
the funny thing is, the radio announcer actually apologized for
playing techno.
People where I live are extremely biased towards techno, because
when they hear techno on the top 40 radio station or whatever, what
they're playing is old 1991-style rave-techno complete with sirens,
whistles, and non-stop 140bpm cheezy madness.
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I'm hardly asking for your servitude.. However, I get quickly
depressed when I read hundreds of messages trying to sort out the
FSOL resent releases..
Is america really so far behind? I think I'm heading for Holland when
I graduate..
I'd be curious to know what percentage of the members of the
list are musicians.. It seems that almost every kid I know east of
the Atlantic who likes techno, writes techno.. However, during my
time spent in NY, all I seem to meet are fried adolescents who aspire
to be promoters when and if they grow up.. Please prove me wrong!