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Timewave interview

Short and (hopefully) sweet.

http://progasm.wordpress.com/2010/1...wave-interview/

Good interview as I'd expected, but you really love creating endless naff blogs, don't you?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Good interview as I'd expected, but you really love creating endless naff blogs, don't you?

Fuck off. Two blogs is hardly "endless", and this one isn't naff; I learnt from my mistakes last time. You obviously don't like the blog name; good for you.

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Originally posted by Domesticated Fuck off. Two blogs is hardly "endless", and this one isn't naff; I learnt from my mistakes last time. You obviously don't like the blog name; good for you.

What were your mistakes and what do you hope to achieve with this new blog?

If you just want the freedom to write about electronic music and have people read it, you could come and write for my blog. Our traffic figures are massively in excess of what you can hope to achieve starting a new blog on your own, and the owner gives you total freedom to write what you want, when you want.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J What were your mistakes and what do you hope to achieve with this new blog? If you just want the freedom to write about electronic music and have people read it, you could come and write for my blog. Our traffic figures are massively in excess of what you can hope to achieve starting a new blog on your own, and the owner gives you total freedom to write what you want, when you want.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J What were your mistakes and what do you hope to achieve with this new blog? If you just want the freedom to write about electronic music and have people read it, you could come and write for my blog. Our traffic figures are massively in excess of what you can hope to achieve starting a new blog on your own, and the owner gives you total freedom to write what you want, when you want.

I made many mistakes last time. Poor editing, formatting and design. Attempting to cover too many genres, pandering to managers and other people who gave me promotional material. Also, the DJ reviews were extremely amateurish and probably not that interesting to read. I could go on and on.

Which site do you write for? CMG, or did you split with them?

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Originally posted by Domesticated Which site do you write for? CMG, or did you split with them?

Nah, I split with them back in June. The new blog is BTFP, which is in my sig. It's about two years old and gets over 8,000 weekly uniques, which should indicate how rapidly it's growing. The guy who runs it did a shout out on TA a month or two back looking for writers, and since he offered me freedom I took him up. I had a few artists and labels asking me for reviews of great music at that time, so I needed an outlet.

Apart from the fact you want to concentrate on prog, there doesn't seem to be anything conceptually unique about your blog. You may as well write the same content for a far larger readership and with a far more powerful Google presence. It might feel weird abandoning a project almost as soon as you've started it, but it'd be a mutually beneficial move.

EDIT: Also, I'm going to sound like a complete dick here, but... I'm not really sure you have the sub-genre expertise to specialise in prog anyway. Just from comments you've made in the last week in DJ Promotion it seems you didn't recognise a huge prog classic like No Other Love, or well established names like Simon Noble, Ian Ossia and Brancaccio & Aisher. When you write about a specific scene you're writing for the die-hard followers, and if you commit such an obvious faux pas you instantly undermine any credibility of being the guy who's informing them. Everyone who gives the slightest shit about prog has Mistiquemusic nailed on their My Labels list on Beatport already. Reviewing their stuff is, in practical terms, just adding to a circle-jerk, however justified the circle might be.

This is why I like writing for a more general electronic music website, because I can review Timewave's album and actually bring it to the attention of several thousand people who haven't already heard about it. I also don't need an encyclopedic knowledgable of dub techno to rave about a new Echospace EP, so I might miss a reference but the majority of my readership will have missed it too.

I expect you to disagree with a lot of what I've just typed, and quite probably turn down my offer too. But I know you'd rather hear it straight, and this is exactly how I see your nascent project. It seems like a waste of your talents to me.

Nice interview, thanks for sharing. And good luck with your new blog.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Apart from the fact you want to concentrate on prog, there doesn't seem to be anything conceptually unique about your blog. You may as well write the same content for a far larger readership and with a far more powerful Google presence. It might feel weird abandoning a project almost as soon as you've started it, but it'd be a mutually beneficial move. EDIT: Also, I'm going to sound like a complete dick here, but... I'm not really sure you have the sub-genre expertise to specialise in prog anyway. Just from comments you've made in the last week in DJ Promotion it seems you didn't recognise a huge prog classic like No Other Love, or well established names like Simon Noble, Ian Ossia and Brancaccio & Aisher. When you write about a specific scene you're writing for the die-hard followers, and if you commit such an obvious faux pas you instantly undermine any credibility of being the guy who's informing them. Everyone who gives the slightest shit about prog has Mistiquemusic nailed on their My Labels list on Beatport already. Reviewing their stuff is, in practical terms, just adding to a circle-jerk, however justified the circle might be. This is why I like writing for a more general electronic music website, because I can review Timewave's album and actually bring it to the attention of several thousand people who haven't already heard about it. I also don't need an encyclopedic knowledgable of dub techno to rave about a new Echospace EP, so I might miss a reference but the majority of my readership will have missed it too. I expect you to disagree with a lot of what I've just typed, and quite probably turn down my offer too. But I know you'd rather hear it straight, and this is exactly how I see your nascent project. It seems like a waste of your talents to me.

Why would I disagree with what you just said? After all, I'm not you.

I'm not at all offended by your comments; I think they're very valid and much appreciated. I'm aware that Mistiquemusic is an obvious label, but that's only the start. In the case of die-hard prog enthusiasts, I'd say there are few as ardent and as encyclopaedic as yourself. And yet, didn't you just come to the website to read an interview?

Yes, perhaps I don't have as firmer grasp on the full history of prog as yourself, but that's the beauty of blogging; it's a highly contemporary medium. It's handy to refer back to old classics and bygone artists to increase your authority, but it's not crucial.

What made you think I don't know No Other Love, anyway? I have a physical copy of The Javelin at home.

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Originally posted by Domesticated Why would I disagree with what you just said? After all, I'm not you. I'm not at all offended by your comments; I think they're very valid and much appreciated. I'm aware that Mistiquemusic is an obvious label, but that's only the start. In the case of die-hard prog enthusiasts, I'd say there are few as ardent and as encyclopaedic as yourself. And yet, didn't you just come to the website to read an interview?

I did, but it's pretty hard to only update a blog with interviews. And there are people on TA who know a damn lot more about prog than I do.

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What made you think I don't know No Other Love, anyway? I have a physical copy of The Javelin at home.

Your comment about the Ad Brown remix of it when reviewing Light The Fuse's new set: "I didn't really like this track. Far too electro-housey and the vocals were awful." Just doesn't sound like the comment of someone recognising a remix of a classic.

The offer is open, anyway.

Regardless if you take up Jack's offer or not (which really does just sound mutually beneficial), it would be nice if you differentiated between question and answer further via typography.

Just sayin'.

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