I'd have to agree here- Richard pretty much always hits the nail on
the head in his reviews
Jason
On 26 Aug 2005, at 15:09, Stewart wrote:
DJ mag could quite happily go out of business and 99.9% of us
wouldn't notice.
Well maybe guys like Richard Brophy would who does a pretty
sterling job of reviewing and supporting techno in the mag. Hes
reviewed pretty much all of my stuff there and I'm sure he gets a
little frustrated at the lack of techno coverage the mag publishes.
But at the end of the day its about selling mags and if they feel
99.9% of techno heads dont care about the mag then they aint gonna
bother writing for them. Muzik and Jockey Slut have already fallen
in the UK (the latter being quite a bit more respectable with the
amount of good techno coverage they did) so there aint much space
left in the media for techno artists to get any kind of headline,
which is a shame I think. I remember guys like Fabrice Lig getting
big interviews in the UK press when they were up and coming (if you
can call doing an album for F-communications up and coming!) and Im
sure it did them some good. Anyway yeah, I'm sure this top 100 list
is gonna be full of the usual top names that help sell magazines
and not reflect in any way, shape or form the actual talent that is
really out there, but thats still no reason to not let them know
that that they are out there. You never know, they might even allow
Richard a full page for reviews again one day!
In the meantime I'm off to buy Straight No Chaser
Stu
