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Sander Kleinenberg Interview (including his views on Internet music distribution)
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| byakko |
Here's the link to the interview.
http://www.musicaorganica.com/interviews.php
(note: my comments below are a transition off a previous thread so if you came straight into this thread, don't worry if some things seem like they come from nowhere)
Remember, electronica, similar to hip-hop, spawned a subculture because it was something fresh, different, but most of all, perpetuated soley by its members' love for the music and the scene. Hip-hop lost it's way when it turned from a creative artform into a get rich quick scheme (although I do concede that there is still an artistic underground genre). And a few years ago when I started hearing Alice Deejay and ATB on KIISFM, I was disappointed and thought, "Well, here goes the commercialization of something else that was good." Thankfully, it's still persisted somewhat. Even though the money is getting bigger, there are still very limited sell-outs to work with commercial acts. But in spite of the growing money, and I suppose this is geared towards upcoming producers and DJ's, I hope you seriously evaluate your motives and priorities: is your first instinct to cash in on the growing scene, or is just for the love of the music and the scene? To put it another way, would you still want to do it if there was absolutely no money in it? |
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| Allyn |
I think it all depends. Every genre has their sellouts IMO. Does the necessarily spell the doom for what we know today? i don't think so. Many people won't listen to things without vocals. I've shown some of my fav. songs to my friends and none of them are listening to them beyond maybe once or twice before they go back to the pop and rock and rap and whatever else they listen to.
The genre is evolving, as someone goes commercial to make a few bucks the quality of sound goes down as more tracks are needed, and they are forgotten about in a few years, to be replaced by someone else.
If i was a DJ i'd spin for money for more music, not for anything else, but it's easy to say that now.
My 2 cents, and i probably contradicted myself somewhere. |
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| byakko |
| Hehehe... no, you had some good points that I totally agree with... It was actually the same thing I was thinking, but forgot to mention. One of distressing things that come with commercialization (I'm not even sure if that's a word =P) is that there are so many people out there more interested in making that buck than the music itself. The result is an influx of all these low quality, assembly line tracks being made and it ruins it for the fewer quality ones because the crap has become the majority, and that feeling is reflected on the whole genre. That's a lot of the reason why I moved off trance onto progressive, even tracks that aren't my style or my taste still usually display quality and creativity through their structure, elements, and how well the elements were chosen or manipulted to match with each other. |
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