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Originally posted by 8Wonders What I am defending is simply the right for the artist to express himself musically. It's a bit difficult to see things from this perspective unless you are an artist yourself.

Then again there's a difference between expressing yourself musically and producing a completely calculated, soulless, heartless piece of "music" to put bread on the table.

As an artist you really should know this.

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Originally posted by 8Wonders In case you didn't notice, it was a sarcastic remark. I am not representing anyone but myself, but I can always depend on you to hop onboard the hate wagon, that's for sure.

Whoa, the hater card. Really quite unexpected.

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Someone find that interview where he says if he could play whatever he wanted it would be mostly "weird ambient stuff" and that involver was one of his favorite CDs.

I mean, he's been playing to this "audience" for years. I think Armin stopped expressing himself musically a long time ago...

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Then again there's a difference between expressing yourself musically and producing a completely calculated, soulless, heartless piece of "music" to put bread on the table. As an artist you really should know this.

And you as an artist should appreciate that sometimes reaching a wider audience requires taking certain risks, and you really should see the big picture instead of condemning something so bluntly.

Hypothetical scenario.

I compose an album, 13 tracks, all 'trance', whatever that word means to you, 1 of which is a 'commercial' record, with the sole purpose of luring people to find out what else I've done, to expose more people to my interpretation of trance music and perhaps get them interested in the genre as a whole.

Bad thing ya?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Whoa, the hater card. Really quite unexpected.

Only because your bandwagon-hopping is so predictable.

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Originally posted by 8Wonders And you as an artist should appreciate that sometimes reaching a wider audience requires taking certain risks, and you really should see the big picture instead of condemning something so bluntly.

"Taking certain risks" is one thing. Doing what I said in my previous post is something completely different. If you're only concerned in reaching a wider audience then you need to rethink why you're in the business in the first place.

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Hypothetical scenario. I compose an album, 13 tracks, all 'trance', whatever that word means to you, 1 of which is a 'commercial' record, with the sole purpose of luring people to find out what else I've done, to expose more people to my interpretation of trance music and perhaps get them interested in the genre as a whole. Bad thing ya?

Ya.

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Originally posted by 8Wonders Only because your bandwagon-hopping is so predictable.

What bandwagon would that be?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery "Taking certain risks" is one thing. Doing what I said in my previous post is something completely different. If you're only concerned in reaching a wider audience then you need to rethink why you're in the business in the first place. Ya.

Ohhh! So any artist whose motives are to expose his art to the most people possible is doing it for the wrong reason?

I can only laugh at that ... there wasn't much you could have said that would have surprised me, but you just did.

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Originally posted by 8Wonders Ohhh! So any artist whose motives are to expose his art to the most people possible is doing it for the wrong reason? I can only laugh at that ... there wasn't much you could have said that would have surprised me, but you just did.

You, on the other hand, reacted the just as I expected.

The key word in my previous post was "only". Dig it.

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Originally posted by 8Wonders Ohhh! So any artist whose motives are to expose his art to the most people possible is doing it for the wrong reason?

Nope, but you can do it without selling out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Clovis Nope, but you can do it without selling out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo

And what would your definition of selling out be?

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