On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, CiM wrote:
quoted 4 lines David Toop (the guy who wrote the back cover AI2 text; maybe he is the Warp/>
> David Toop (the guy who wrote the back cover AI2 text; maybe he is the Warp/
> Designer's Republic net spy?) seems to dismiss all this by stating that such
> "partisan analyses" (yeah; cheers mate) is irrelevant. I don't think it is,
You mean you bothered to read this crap? What a load of pretentious
bollocks! The guy needs some lessons in English too...
quoted 3 lines theme and ignore any claims that say otherwise. Evidence of this is shown> theme and ignore any claims that say otherwise. Evidence of this is shown
> below the AI logo in the advert in the NME (for AI2);
> "Meaningless marketing slogan : NOT APPLICABLE"
Yeah, I noticed this and thought it was pretty cool at first, but now I'm
not so sure, 'cos of course saying 'oh this is meaningless marketing
hype' IS in fact meaningless marketing hype... However I think there is
some degree of sincerity there, and in any case it shows a self-awareness
of their own hype. Perhaps Warp feel that they have been misinterpreted...
quoted 2 lines Anyways, lets see what the AI2 series of albums are going to be like first;> Anyways, lets see what the AI2 series of albums are going to be like first;
> with or without the hype. The AI 'Motion' video looks rather tasty too...
Are they going to do a whole series of AI2s? like AI1? Is this a good
idea? Tho' I suppose ultimately a R. H. Kirk record is still RHK whether
it has an AI logo on the front or not...
quoted 8 lines Sorry if this bored you senseless; its just probably me getting paranoid in> Sorry if this bored you senseless; its just probably me getting paranoid in
> my old age :-) There must have been a reason for the Des.Republic to
> include the UK-Dance discussions; I just wanted to know why. Are they trying
> to show public reaction to AI? Are they saying "look at this bunch of
> wankers talking about Detroit techno when really AI is part of human
> society...blah, blah...Indian cultures had it...etc..."? Are they just
> jumping on the net-hype bandwagon? Or maybe they thought it just looked
> nice...
I think it was used (fairly obviously) because a) It looks good and b)
It's suitably pretentious. Surely most people won't have a clue what it
is or where it comes from (the email inserts that is)...
greg
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