Ian Malbon wrote: > > If WMC was any indication, the "cutting-edge stuff being played > in other cities" includes a preponderance of formula trance, and > all the major label sweethearts that are available through the > Columbia House Music Club.
On the topic of Columbia House: at the Rotterdam Film Festival two months ago, I saw the movie/documentary "The Target Shoots First". It's a true story about a college grad that joins Columbia House mid-90s and takes his videocamera along to record his first year working there. He's very much into Nirvana and his main task is to set up a magazine to target 'his' segment, aka the alternative segment of the market. He succeeds at first, basically by keeping it real. Then the magazine is gentrified by the powers-that-be and he quits. It may not sound like much of a movie, but it's a very sobering look at how the corporate music market is controlled and how good intentions get strangled in the assimilation process of pie diagrams, sales projections and Powerpoint presentations. This is the reason why there will always be an underground. Otto
