Rant on Otto, you ain't lyin'. IMO most of 'our scene' especially the music
has become a mostly '2 hype' trend.
The beauty of that is, just when 'they' think they have it all figurred and
neatly compartmentalized, something truly poetic or original will emerge to
challenge.
The truly amazing stuff usually arises from the ashes of something else...
2 sense
From: Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [313] another causality
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 16:39:38 +0200
>Still, I clearly don't know Hotmix et al's reasons.
>Maybe they just don't want to be part of the Spectacle
The main problem IMO is that 'their' sound has been adopted by people with
relatively more marketing-skills than musical talent (unfortunately the two
rarely go together). This makes the sound go into a direction they're not
happy with.
That would've been fine in itself (after all, everyone is entitled to their
own taste) as long as they're not getting drawn into that. But now
everything vaguely related is quickly labeled electroclash, including the
people who strongly feel that they don't belong there at all.
*That* is the real problem.
It is a problem in particular because once this fad is over, the original
electro artists will have a much harder time getting their music out there
because they'll be dismissed quite easily by the media and punters: 'that
sound is sooooo passe, dahlin'...
Otto
PS This whole situation is nothing new BTW, the same thing happened when
the harder Detroit techno sounds of Cybersonik, UR and Mills got mutated
into gabba. Other examples are the UK hardcore - drum 'n bass split or when
tech-house started to overlap with progressive house (like Circulation
getting spun by Sasha and Digweed for instance).
PPS Apologies to the LOW-subscribers who saw most of this rant in Dutch
yesterday on the Lowlands-list already.
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