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From: Greg Earle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:48:54 -0700
To: [email protected]
Subject: [313] Is Electronic Music dying? (was: "Re: The committee vs. Carl
Craig")
Last year, the sight of the crowd at the DEMF - seeing hundreds of thousands
of people out to see *my music*, ON MY OWN HOME SOIL - had me in tears. (I
mean, let's face it, that many people in a place like, say, Holland, wouldn't
be quite so amazing - Techno and House are so well-integrated into the
popular culture over there.)
i would question whether or not those "hundreds of thousands of people" were
actually out to see the music or to be part of a scene they heard about..i
myself am skeptical remembering the quality of people there versus the year
before..but then again maybe i'm just cynical :)
But now it's a year later and it seems like the stakes are higher ... the
lineups for these other Techno-oriented festivals seem to be getting
weaker ... which means that now, more than ever, having a strong DEMF
somehow seems even more important, against that backdrop. To me, Techno
has always been truly "The Music Of The Future" - and I hate to see the
Future become something that starts to resemble the Past, which these
Audiotistic and Coachella lineups do.
again i disagree...maybe the music will improve if it stops being fodder for
popular consumption...i know i make this comparison too much but again look at
the history of jazz
Is Electronic music dying? Of course not - but I'm worried that this "trend"
(if one can call it that) leads down the same path to Jazz - pushed to the
side, kept out of the limelight, only supported by the (small) subculture.
*chuckle* whoops..i hadn't read this part..as a jazz person i say this is a
_good_ thing..it lets _creativity_ blossom as opposed to being swayed by the
needs/wants/desires of mainstream culture...it's mushy bland white bread vs
small quantities of artisan bread
But then, that's just the thoughts of an old Punk idealist. :)
wow..this is _so_ not a punk ideal..punk was a response _to_ popular culture
"crap" (i put this in quotes cause i love cheesy disco at times :)and when
people like debbie harry gained popular appeal they got totally bashed by punk
culture
interesting points raised here nonetheless
-k
- Greg
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