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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Not only have you copy-pasted that entire post from another thread, it's completely irrelevant. When you make decisions based on financial gain, it is no longer all about the music. By default. As I said, I can sympathise with people who're doing this job full time, but the fact remains. Artistic integrity is about making decisions solely for the benefit of your art. That's why the underground is so romanticised, because an underground scene is one purely about love of the music, not about turning a profit. It's in those conditions that music best prospers.
You may have this ludicrous, nostalgic view of the 90s dance scene as the best period ever, but the whole thing collapsed because DJs were out to make too much money, asking for bigger and bigger fees and constructing cults of personality around their image, not their music. You idolise the likes of Oakenfold, but it's exactly his business-oriented approach to squeezing the market dry that killed off all that progressive and trance you can't shut up about. |
I agree with everything you say up until the last sentence.
It's the impressionable, soulless, sheep of modern day society that bought into the hype that killed it as far as I'm concerned.
Same applies to 99.9% of every commerical / capitalist venture out there. People will believe whatever they are told.....not what they know.
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