On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the case you make here, repressing is an effect, not a cause. why are people buying repressings? how are they discovering the older music. mybe their hipsters who got turned on my kompakt or miss kittin? > > >no- repressing will only reconfirm the music's greatness to all > the people > >who are already into it. preaching to the choir. > > how exactly is that? is everyone just gonna buy their second and > third copies of all these records? theyre obviously being > repressed because new people demand the old tunes that started it > all. thats the most encouraging thing i can think of for this > music. keeping it obscure and out of print is bad news for letting > more people get into it. the implication that you'e making here supposes that the music being made and played by kompakt and co. is bad. i think the general concensus is that's not the case. > > >a 'trendy' movement within this type of music (it amazes me how > purist can > >always pull the wagons in tighter) will encourage some much needed > >economic growth for artists as well as encourage some new musical > ideas > >and bring forth at least a small contingent who went in as > trendies and > >came out as life long fans. > > > >that's how you build > > actually, thats how you destroy things. music can obviously grow > just fine without massive press and hipster cred and money behind > it. if it didnt there would be no real underground music. the way > you build is by releasing good distincitve records, not trendy > records. i mean look at the ravey era of underground resistance > tunes. how well have they held up compared to their other older > joints? > > tom > > ________________________________________________________________ > andythepooh.com > > > > >
