so what you are saying basically is that "laptop" and "computer
music" are still in relative infancy so the majority (or at least a
large number) of the users/musicians still haven't progressed much
beyond the discovery stage.....
philosophically speaking therefore, this music is not inherently
crap, just unripe.
or more appropriately, the people are. it is much easier to get a
track up and going and sounding like something close to what they
expect to hear (based on the sound coming out of computers and mp3
players) with software like acid. and so tracks can be completed in
a short amount of time without learning much about how to make them
sound good (and let's not even get started on the actual composition
of the pieces).
i don't think making music needs to be hard in order to produce good
results ("oh, how i suffer for my art!"). however, i believe that
in general, rather than easiness being a boon to creativity it has
chiefly been a boon to productivity.
d.
