I don't think I can pronounce that. ;) ---------- >From: Ralf Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "313 (E-mail)" <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: RE: (313) electro house is taking over (maybe not just in OZ) >Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 12:24 PM >
> don't know where you guys have been but we've known this genre as elicso for > the last 6 minutes... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cyclone Wehner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2003 1:59 p.m. > To: 313 Detroit > Subject: Re: (313) electro house is taking over (maybe not just in OZ) > > > 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. >
