Totally agree. But there will always be people feeling hurted by the
ones who disturb their own status quo. The thing repeats on and on
and on.
A 70 year old rich guy claims that popular music is not music, an 50
year old claims that music played by guitar bands is real music, and
music played by pushing buttons and running machines is not music, a
"young fresh" guy, who already heard all this sh*t, claims that music
made by pushing buttons and running machines is real music and the
onde made in a computer is not. It's like a generations disease!
That reminds me of that classic situation at work – new guy arrives
doing things, shifting things up, but the olds guys wanna put him
down cause they don't wanna work hard, they don't wanna keep up or
run the risk of loosing whatever they already have.
Kw
On 07/04/2008, at 10:36, kent williams wrote:
This seems to come up a lot -- people complaining about laptop
performers, software-based production, etc. This is where the dub vs
mnml thread seemed to be going.
I don't want to start another debate, or another repetition of the
same people launching the same mortars over the wall at each other,
but I want to say this (perhaps again): 1. Judge the results, not the
technique. 2. The theoretical 'futurism' of techno would almost demand
embracing of new technology. 3. You can make crappy dance music with a
909, 808, 303, SH101 and a MPC60 too. You're just out $10k more on
hardware than you would be with your laptop and cracked copy of fruity
loops. 4. Why give people points for making virtue of a necessity, if
the results don't measure up?
