DJ mag could quite happily go out of business and 99.9% of us wouldn't
notice.
Well maybe guys like Richard Brophy would who does a pretty sterling job of
reviewing and supporting techno in the mag. Hes reviewed pretty much all of
my stuff there and I'm sure he gets a little frustrated at the lack of
techno coverage the mag publishes. But at the end of the day its about
selling mags and if they feel 99.9% of techno heads dont care about the mag
then they aint gonna bother writing for them. Muzik and Jockey Slut have
already fallen in the UK (the latter being quite a bit more respectable with
the amount of good techno coverage they did) so there aint much space left
in the media for techno artists to get any kind of headline, which is a
shame I think. I remember guys like Fabrice Lig getting big interviews in
the UK press when they were up and coming (if you can call doing an album
for F-communications up and coming!) and Im sure it did them some good.
Anyway yeah, I'm sure this top 100 list is gonna be full of the usual top
names that help sell magazines and not reflect in any way, shape or form the
actual talent that is really out there, but thats still no reason to not let
them know that that they are out there. You never know, they might even
allow Richard a full page for reviews again one day!
In the meantime I'm off to buy Straight No Chaser
Stu
