Hi Otto, yes you are right. But still they shouldn't blame it all on the wrong people. This scene is already too small to turn it into a "I am more underground than you" contest.
IMHO they should just continue what they like doing best. And if in a few months they are being dismissed as "sooo passé" then pity for those losers. Joost -----Original Message----- From: Otto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 3 september 2002 16:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [313] another causality >Still, I clearly don't know Hotmix et al's reasons. >Maybe they just don't want to be part of the Spectacle The main problem IMO is that 'their' sound has been adopted by people with relatively more marketing-skills than musical talent (unfortunately the two rarely go together). This makes the sound go into a direction they're not happy with. That would've been fine in itself (after all, everyone is entitled to their own taste) as long as they're not getting drawn into that. But now everything vaguely related is quickly labeled electroclash, including the people who strongly feel that they don't belong there at all. *That* is the real problem. It is a problem in particular because once this fad is over, the original electro artists will have a much harder time getting their music out there because they'll be dismissed quite easily by the media and punters: 'that sound is sooooo passe, dahlin'... Otto PS This whole situation is nothing new BTW, the same thing happened when the harder Detroit techno sounds of Cybersonik, UR and Mills got mutated into gabba. Other examples are the UK hardcore - drum 'n bass split or when tech-house started to overlap with progressive house (like Circulation getting spun by Sasha and Digweed for instance). PPS Apologies to the LOW-subscribers who saw most of this rant in Dutch yesterday on the Lowlands-list already. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
