On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:53 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok. > > I know this is probably going to start a row, but, hey ho, its Friday. > > ""The founder of Rockstar Games ... came here when Mike Banks was working > on construction of the Submerge building. And basically, Mike Banks is > not really down for commercial exploitation of his music whatsoever. So > he gave him the big Mad Mike UR speech and kicked him out," said Ade > Henderson-Mainor, president of Submerge Recordings. "But J.D. Simpson, > our general counsel for Submerge, kept the relationship alive for years. > When I came on board in 2002, we were able to rekindle that relationship." > > So what did UR do, change their mind?!!
Well, J.D. and Ade changed Mike's mind, obviously. > You know, to be honest, I can't really see whats all that wrong with it in > the first place. If the company don't ask you to change the music at all, > then you're not really compromising yourself are you? > > or am I missing something? maybe Mike's point of view: http://membres.lycos.fr/fighters/madmike.htm "Why is it so important to stay underground? It's important for Underground Resistance to stay underground because I think it provides inspiration for others around the world to start organisations and not be controlled by the programmers. I can hear in the music over the last three years that our music is influencing people all over the world. I like to see the effects that our music is having - I think our listeners are much informed, and very much aware of world events, nature, of respect. I think for Underground Resistance to go commercial would be like me disrespecting all the people that have supported us over the years." > ""It's more mainstream, club and television dance music," > Henderson-Mainor said of typical video game fare. "It's not underground > dance music. It's not like the stuff that we make. So they get cool > points having us being a part of this game." > > ha ha, cool points with who exactly? roughly 5000 spotty white boys like me > worldwide? ha ha. techno is sooooo uncool its not even true! Henderson joined 2002, anymore explanaions?
