on 11/17/02 8:44 AM, Cyclone Wehner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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. > > Some interesting points.
Please elaborate on point #1. Who are these so called journalists and magazines? point #2, IDM was not NAMED after the hyperreal mailing list. >> Does that make mailing lists influential, or just just a >> closed feedback loop? Do people really take mailing list seriously? I think your a little disillusioned if you think a small community of fans have such a big impact on the scene. >> 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. That could be said about the genere term "techno" but the ideology was nothing new to Juan Atkins and Derrick May. > The whole problem with journalists is >> they're writers, and they're always confusing an attractive narrative >> for reality. > > Now that is a generalisation!!! :) It seems there is a lot of aspiring writers and journalists on the 313 list.
