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thejaguarwrote
Sun, 18 Nov 2012Shed yes, Scuba and Dettmann are average. I mean seriously. Clearly Shed is head and shoulders above the other two.

This article is spot on.

absolutemoronwrote
Sun, 18 Nov 2012I hope the irony of dismissing a considered argument as one-sided in a brief and even more blinkered comment on a message board is not lost on you. You are right that this is a hugely complex issue, but you're missing the wider point being made here.

Nobody's saying that any producer has a divine right to earn a living from selling music. The point being made is that the increasingly widespread notion that recorded music should be free to the consumer feeds and accelerates a spiral of... More

MHBwrote
Sat, 17 Nov 2012Haven't live bands been doing the same thing since forever? Write songs, get in the studio and record, play live. Repeat.

I guess the argument would be that these guys aren't making a ton of money off of their recordings, but that's why they call it underground music. To make a killing off your recordings, then make the next 'Call On Me' or 'Levels' (easier said than done). If the music you release is esoteric RA-only approved bleeps, bloops and reverb then you're shit out of luck on... More

Make Mewrote
Fri, 16 Nov 2012This.

There are still people now who busy their asses with a full time job, and produce, run labels, and tear it up in the club. Work ethic and talent will always win out in the long run. Just look at peeps like jus-ed, Fred P, the deconstruct crew... All real people with real lives who do it all because they are driven to.

danielchasewrote
Fri, 16 Nov 2012The computer: best/worst thing that ever happened to music.

dazedetenwrote
Fri, 16 Nov 2012He doesn't say there isn't any interesting music being released - he says that the situation makes it harder to find among the proliferation of mediocre stuff being churned out. Which is essentially the exact same thing you're saying.







Maybe a different title would have worked better for the contents of the article. I don't entirely disagree with some of the views in the article, but when you say 'dance music is in creative crisis', its a broad brush and a fallacy, when there is... More