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kadomony
FRENCH EXPRESS

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Philly
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Nov-04-2010 03:43
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kadomony
FRENCH EXPRESS

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Philly
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Nov-04-2010 04:07
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The Vza
Gone Deep

Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Philly
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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Eco
Gunna stop my opinions there though haha.. Knowing my track record, this turns into a 45 page post like the Deadmau5 thread two years ago haha.. I have an opinion, just like all of you guys do!
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honestly dude? you and zack are 2 people on the EXTREMELY short list of those with whom I enjoy debating on these forums. Why? because you aren't hating, you are asserting a claim and using calm, logical arguments to back that claim.
/praise
I get what you're saying with how this dude popped out of nowhere and didn't necessarily go through the 'blood, sweat, tears' aspect of trying to make it. Then again, when I wikipedia'd him, I found that this guy has been playing hardcore and punk music for a long time. His band was on the warped tour. he was rocking shows, putting in the blood, sweat and tears... i think. unless his wiki has been faked by the machine. I wouldnt put it past them. because you're right, the music PR, hype, 'branding' machine could put some hairspray and an earring on a crow, auto-tune its 'ckaaww ka-kaawww' and make a platinum album (hey, I think I may be on to something!!)
as far as the whole thinking a guy is sick because he had the whole top 10... no, thats not why i think he is sick. I think he's sick because of the utter crackiness of his beats, even if im not the biggest fan of electro, i just respected the random crack bass insanity. but i was also reeeaaallly feeling that ambient-type uplifting-ish stuff.
whether or not he actually produced it? who knows. Given he's from LA and that the whole hipster culture is more or less "in", cause lets be honest... it is to a degree. If enough people hate on hipsters, then they're style must be of importance. cause no one hates on something that's unimportant...
back to my point... given he's from LA and has this weirdo long hair and glasses and makes electro and he's an LA cool guy... I feel like that really IS an image the machine could have put out. who knows.
Wait... there's more, real quick
on to the topic of feeling like people dont work hard and get noticed off nothing... that fucking pisses me off... I used to want to be a rapper. I wasnt bad at it either. But i was a jew from the burbs and the way rap music was, i had to be a G'd up hustler to make it. So I went out and became a G'd up hustler. I moved and was around those moving a LOT of this and that. I kept rapping. I event got a meeting with Pat Moxey. he loved the whole "Burbs to the Block concept" I put in my blood sweat and tears for mad long. And what happens? myspace blows up and any cock sucker with a decent lyric can be heard without doing SHIT. and now??? Rapping isnt about how deep you run or even how conscious your rhymes are... its about how many bow ties and square shaped, thick framed glasses you own. What the fuck happened?
/rant
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Nov-04-2010 05:05
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EnigmaT
Ultimate EM Source

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Long Island, NY
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Nov-04-2010 08:33
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DJ Eco
in yo mouf

Registered: May 2004
Location: Dirty Jersey
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| quote: | Originally posted by The Vza
honestly dude? you and zack are 2 people on the EXTREMELY short list of those with whom I enjoy debating on these forums. Why? because you aren't hating, you are asserting a claim and using calm, logical arguments to back that claim. |
Well I take that as a big compliment! I don't wanna be seen as the downer or sipper on Haterade..
My perspective is really unique in that I'm currently neck-deep in this whole music machine. I'm wrapping up work on my artist album for Armada; not a day goes by without 5-10 emails back and forth about one of the songs, or one of the promotion ideas, or one of the collaborations. Everything's very strategic and because I'm finishing up my last year of college, there have been offers for a lot (and I mean A LOT) of high profile gigs and even some 3-4 week tours I've had to say no to. This is all coming after 6-7 of EXTREMELY hard work, which luckily here in NYTA I can say many of you have been able to witness.
It's like an actor who watches Entourage and then understands how the entire process works: the good and the bad. Being behind the scenes and in contact with so many producers and DJs in the scene, which is a really small world when you really look at it, a lot has turned me off to the very machine-like nature of this all.
The bands and musical artists from the past that I look up to paved their careers by plugging away at it for years, putting out immense quality and boundary-breaking music, and then maybe later selling out. Now, I look at young artists like myself who, with a series of publicity moves, and a few tunes paid for by the label and produced by someone else, can be world famous in 10 months. It's really quite simple, but still sad..
It's like if Norman Rockwell or Pablo Picasso met Andy Warhol who, because he was at the right time and place, got famous painting Campbell's soup cans..
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Nov-04-2010 12:35
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