You can't just blame music writers, it's an industry thing. Realistically, practically, if you look at the way music is organised in record stores - do you really want to sort through all the country releases to get to that Suburban Knight 12 inch? I can tell you also that the vast majority of labels come from artists themselves. Never underestimate artists' attempts to market themselves - and that's understandable. Eg. DJ Hell has claimed to coining 'electroclash'. I'm sure he didn't envisage what happened with that. Big beat came from Fatboy Slim! 'House' came from punters at the Warehouse. You could say media types often take things out of context, or that magazines exploit it, sure. Some of our most loved music was a 'trend' at one stage. Techno, New Romantic, whatever. I really think we have to start to rethink whether 'fashion' is a bad thing. Fashion = change = flux. It's not something the modern media created. It can be good and bad. What makes techno special is it ultimately transcended fashion to be tied to a certain era and beyond.
---------- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: David Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: (313) electro house is taking over (maybe not just in OZ) >Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 5:12 AM > > I wonder what's worse? > > A music journalist who spent 2 seconds trying to describe how a certain > type of music sounds.... > > ...or a list full of people spending days trying to examine the meaning of > said offensive categorization? > > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, David Gillies wrote: > >> I've heard that term to describe stuff on Paper Recordings as well.... >> >> Sean Creen wrote: >> >> >As far as I remember, that term was first used by Simon Reynolds to describe >> >the Berlin sound, but then everything seems to revolve around drugs as far >> >as that excuse for a journalist is concerned... >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: 29 April 2003 15:56 >> >To: Tom Robbins/Magic Feet >> >Cc: 313 mailing list >> >Subject: Re: (313) electro house is taking over (maybe not just in OZ) >> > >> > >> >I heard someone call Theo Parrish's stuff 'heroin house' >> > >> > >> >> >> >
