> Well, it's like this: to some extent, the 313 list INVENTED the sort of > over-reverent, concerned-with-absolute-purity, hardcore trainspotter version > of Detroit Techno. A few journalists got on the list and started spreading > the meme to the hoi polloi. People start seeing their opinions reflected > back at them from magazines and think they got the world on lock. > > I mean there's a whole GENRE of music -- IDM -- that is NAMED after a mailing > list. And, I might add, the mailing list is 95% of the worldwide market for > the music. Does that make mailing lists influential, or just just a > closed feedback loop?
Some interesting points. > > And lest we forget, the whole futuristic utopian idea of techno was invented > by Derrick May and Juan Atkins egging on British journalists some time after > they started making the music. Sure, that was the idea, but they never said it was exclusive. I know Derrick listens to a bit of everything. The whole problem with journalists is > they're writers, and they're always confusing an attractive narrative > for reality. Now that is a generalisation!!! :)
