I find grand "retirement" announcements barely tolerable from artists I massively respect (like I-F), and I have nothing against Alex Cortex, but he is nowhere close to being in that league for me, although I liked some of his music just fine. I also find whining about the scene really naive and beyond obvious at this point. There's nothing insightful or constructive in his anti-scene ranting, it's trite and simpering. He hasn't made a track in 6 months and he's tried of club culture so he's retiring from making music? He doesn't make enough money, so he's flat-out retiring? Uh, okay, don't see how that should affect anyone who is really compelled to make music/art, so go ahead on then...See ya when you cool off and get it out of your system...
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Honestly if he's unhappy, godspeed and all that. > > But the downside he's describes to the 'techno scene' isn't a new > thing. Where you have a party scene, you're going to have people > doing things you may not be down with, you're going to have shallow > people, you're going to have politics and backstabbing and bitchiness. > > In other words it sounds like pretty much every other professional > scene I've ever been involved with. Only, in my experience, working > at a University, by contrast doesn't have nearly as much in the way of > hookerz and blow. > > So I don't know what he's going to do for a living where he'll be able > to avoid a certain amount of negativity and bad behavior. Why not > focus on the fact that you're actually making a living out of music, > something lots of us would be feel blessed to be able to do? > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Ivan Tomasevic > <to...@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.rs> wrote: >> >> http://www.testindustries.com/2009/10/alex-cortex-not-so-slight-return.html >> >> regards, >> >> ivan >> >> >
