wow, do you work for mattel? you think they're trying to *discover* dj culture?! pah-leeese, if they were 'creating' as you say, then they woulda made barbie a dj and ken her raver boyfriend. bidniss as usual.
as for the word atrocity, sorry the word is not just reserved for nazis. thanks for telling me what adbusters would say though. marie /// marie kacmarek http://www.urbansounds.com electronic music and beyond > From: Ian Malbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:39:24 -0400 > To: Marie Kacmarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) okay, this rave for the masses dross > >> the unfortunate thing about dj ken etal is we are now sleepwalking. we don't >> even care about things like this anymore because we have been so inundated >> by it. [snip] >> the issue i have with >> this, however, is it changes history -- pop culture is one of the >> foundations of our history -- and as long as we don't answer this assault to >> our senses, we will be forced to mutate continuously because that's all we >> can do in answer to such atrocities. > > So, the co-opting (at worst) or discovery (at best) of dj culture > by Mattel amounts to an > "atrocity"? I think even Adbusters would recommend saving that > rhetoric for more important > protests. > >> the answer to the commodification of cool is the constant mutation >> into the new. > > "Thank you big bad marketers," I say, for the impetus to create. > Complacency, not commodification, killed the cat. > > -- > There4IM >
