That sounds akin to something a dying, egregious philosopher on DMT would
spout.
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From: "[mark ]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "1-11" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: (313) OT: Burial, revealed.....
the anticipation is better than the arrival of the moment itself,
because its perfection exists only within your mind and has not yet
been sullied by reality.
therefore, i would like to state on record that i only like artists
who haven't actually released any music yet.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:43 AM, kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I don't really think it's here nor there. I'm a fan of the music, and
getting too caught up in the 'legend' gets in the way, which from his
blog post, was precisely why he gave it up.
Drexciya's identity was kept under wraps for two reasons -- the people
that knew were asked to keep quiet and did, and because Drexciya were
famous to at most a couple thousand people world wide - whatever
prominence they achieved, they achieved it inside the dance music
scene, with a penumbra of renown amongst the chinstrokers who read The
Wire..
Thanks to Pitchfork et al, Burial is a pop star to a load of kids who
don't know two-step from happy hardcore. Not necessarily a bad thing,
but like rich Americans appropriating indigenous music from around the
world to make a buck, any time something breaks out to a larger
audience, it loses its context, and becomes devalued artistically even
as its value as a commodity increases.
Plus, blowing up is a two-edged sword. Being the flavor of the month
means next month you won't be. While it's a good thing when artists
can make a living from their art, once they become ubiquitous they
have to deal with living in a hall of mirrors -- their detractors,
their imitators, their record labels demands of duplicating past
success. When a bazillion people have glommed onto your art as
something they regard as 'theirs' your own worst competition is what
you did yourself a few years back.
It's not any big prognostication to say that no matter what he
actually release next, some people will say he's fallen off.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
it's a bummer that his anonymity became an issue - wouldn't have been
that
big of a deal back in '96 when half the techno producers were in the
shadows
MEK
"1-11" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/06/2008 02:44:01 PM:
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=824&Itemid=26
...or is it (and do you care anyway)?
--
"Play more things that make me dance around and less things that make
me sit and look miserable in a plastic chair" - Brian Eno
Blind faith in bad leadership is not "Patriotism".
