your point being that musical styles and popularity ebbs and flows? duh
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: > my email acct just ate my long reply to this. argh. anyway, i > conceded your point about kompakt working hard to achieve a new > audience, but i simply dont think that is the only reason for > their popularity. we'll remember this thread and 2 years from now > when kompakt shows dont draw 400 much less 1400 people in nyc ill > find it in the archives and prove my point ; ) > > tom > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:20:30 -0500 (EST) > > > > >> > >> >but how did the hip-hop heads hear it? obviously there's some > >> sort of > >> >'trend' leading them to discover this music. > >> > >> from hearing me and other deejays playing the records in the > first > >> place. the guy who owns the shop is a massive hiphop head and > >> loves his native tongues era stuff as well as many other kinds > of > >> music. hes into some house, but now he buys just about every > >> mahogani or andres record that comes in. its a matter of the guy > >> hearing the music without anything attatched to it. > > > >and how many nyc 'hipsters' got into the music because they went > into > >Othermusic and heard some playing on the in-store system. Or > heard it from > >friends. And why are magazines an automatic bad thing. You act as > though > >this type of techno is being played on mainstream media. The fact > is, any > >person who makes it their business to seek out music that is off > the > >mainstream radar deserves our welcome. > > > > > >> > >> >you seem to be very fond of subdividing people. i walk into a > >> party and > >> >see a bunch of people who are there to enjoy whatever music is > >> being > >> >played at that party. You seem to walk in a break them down > into > >> little > >> >categories to which you obviously attach judgement values to. > >> > >> i dont see why its a bad thing to be aware of trends and > >> advertising. some music gets popular because theres money behind > >> it. some gets popular because its just that good. most has a > >> little bit of both mixed in there in varying amounts. kompakt > has > >> existed for how long? and just now everyone is getting into it? > >> the motives seem questionable to me. music writers are always > >> looking for that "next big thing" to latch onto before everyone > >> else. it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when thats what gets > >> covered so thats what people gravitate towards. > > > >for music to gain a foothold, must reach a critical mass. i'd say > that > >after several years- kompakt has achieved that critical mass. i > would also > >say that their style has evolved away from the glut of minimal > music in > >the late 90's into its own sort of sub-style that lots of people > find > >appealing. furthermore, in the past year or so, kompakt has made a > >concerted effort to reach out to the american audience via > touring and > >distribution and advertising- the same way any music 'breaks' > into new > >audiences. > > > >they are a completely independant business that has networked > through > >like-minded individuals world wide and have, as a result, > achieved a more > >visible profile. that is grassroots at its finest. what more do > you want? > > > > > >> > >> all im saying is that in alot of cases people like music for > many > >> reasons that ARENT how good the music is. you cant honestly > argue > >> that point, but it really seems like you want to. > > > >i will argue the point that the way someone enters into a music > is nowhere > >near as important as what they do once they get there. and not > every fan > >is required to commit whole-heartedly to a lifelong interest in a > >particular type of music. the only thing i require from someone > who is > >interested in the sort of music i am personally engage with is > that they > >pay their cover charge (a nessecity for things like venue, sound, > flights > >and all the real world stuff), that they enjoy themselves and the > music > >once they are present, and that they tell their friends about the > good > >time they had the following monday. > > > > > > > > > >> tom > >> > >> ________________________________________________________________ > >> andythepooh.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > andythepooh.com > > > > >
