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| #1 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 16:24 This man can do no wrong...
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| #2 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 16:45 Thats a really depressing interview, and I don't mean that offensively, its just very sad that someone can feel so crushed (like the waveforms!) doing something they are obviously very passionate and good at.
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| #3 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 17:02 yeah I just wish all those people who "steal" music would realise what they're doing to great musicians like Morgan. Why do people think they shouldnt have to pay for music anymore?!? such a shame
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| #4 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 17:35 Having interviewed MG a few times, I know he feels frustrated about the music industry, but deep down I think he's still passionate and enthusiastic about what he does. Music, at least. I don't think he's feeling dance music much right now.
Incidentally, there's more from MG in this interview:
http://trickydiscobristol.blogspot.com/2008/09/td-interviews-morgan-geist.html
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| #5 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 17:35 Some interesting perspectives on music particularly pop music.
I like this quote:
"Listening to music isn't an event anymore unless it's live. No one sits down and just listens. I think entertaining yourself on the go is turning into a huge problem. It's like yogurt tubes versus nice Greek yogurt with honey drizzled on it."
Sounds like he needs to either move away or go on a vacation and unplug for a bit. Get inspired and do what feels right and don't get caught up in the industry BS.
Thanks for the interview.
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| #6 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 18:06 An engaging and honest interview with some great points.
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| #7 / Fri, 12 Sep 08 19:31 "That's what music's doing now, yelling at you."
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| #8 / Sat, 13 Sep 08 07:38 Hooray for cosmic ambivalence! Boo to compression and depression!
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| #9 / Sat, 13 Sep 08 11:34 quote:
Posted by gillsans
Some interesting perspectives on music particularly pop music.
I like this quote:
"Listening to music isn't an event anymore unless it's live. No one sits down and just listens. I think entertaining yourself on the go is turning into a huge problem. It's like yogurt tubes versus nice Greek yogurt with honey drizzled on it."
I thought this was really interesting too. And as sad as this quote is, it's also friggin awesome: People write me now, like, "Oh, I love the new album." It's like saying, "Your mother's so pretty. I noticed while I was fucking her last night." .
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| #10 / Sat, 13 Sep 08 15:10 i'm a huge fan of morgan Geist & Metro Area's work but i don't share his views on people taking music from internet.
The problem with sales in the electronic music industry is much deeper than people just illegally downloading everything and never paying.
It's a marginal - as opposed to popular - sector. Few people are actually buying cds because few people consider themselves interested by the genre.
It's also very segmented and saturated. There are too many records, too many labels and people get confused and are not willing to spend an expensive 20-25 euros/dollars on a record they're not sure they'll like.
there's also a problem of access to the music. Once you do know what you want, it is hard to find a precise record.
Internet gives the opportunity to preview albums, to discover new artists. If records are really worth it people will start talking about it and sales will follow.
Geist mentions Justice. These guys worked hard on the image they gave to their record. Its marketing. they worked on making something fashionable and sufficiently charismatic to attract people beyond the electronic music sphere. Though their album is neither good nor pleasant to listen to, it has a strong image, a personality. This is what lacks to most records.
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| #11 / Sat, 13 Sep 08 18:37 quote:
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i'm a huge fan of morgan Geist & Metro Area's work but i don't share his views on people taking music from internet.
The problem with sales in the electronic music industry is much deeper than people just illegally downloading everything and never paying.quote:
If by deeper u mean "it's economics" then I agree... cause that's what it comes down to... if u got a mortgage and a kid to send to school then your weekly 12" buying is gon take a backseat... it's the decaying of the Culture (with cap. C !!!) coupled with the disappearing of the genral welfare principle of outr constitution...that's the problem and what a biug one !!
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there's also a problem of access to the music. Once you do know what you want, it is hard to find a precise record. quote:
I say, and they said, seek and u shall find !!!
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Internet gives the opportunity to preview albums, to discover new artists. If records are really worth it people will start talking about it and sales will follow. quote:
I assume that's not what Morgan was referring to when pointing that out !!! .. who'd have a problem with using web-audio snippets to check music if you know you got decent works you are at least proud of and that ppl have it in their culture to NOT just rip it ? again, Culture with a cap. C
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Geist mentions Justice. These guys worked hard on the image they gave to their record. Its marketing. they worked on making something fashionable and sufficiently charismatic to attract people beyond the electronic music sphere. Though their album is neither good nor pleasant to listen to, it has a strong image, a personality. This is what lacks to most records.
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WoW ! With this last comment you are implying, sorry but you mos def are, that a Morgan Geist does not put the same attention to everything as the Justice ppl ??? u got it only a bit wrong I fear ! if Justice is more successful, not sure, but if they are it should just tell you a lil bit about "pop culture" today, it might be popular, but it aint got much culture !... say Tiesto, sure u heard that name right ? he filled Pacha in NY with thousands of ppl, each one of them paid 50$ to get i the club.. very pop-ular this Tiesto guy, but is he doing something better than M.Geist ? If so, nobody who likes Morgan's work want to really know cause who fucking likes that shit anyway ???.. obviously a lot of ppl (this could open a very long argument as to whether those ppl actualy like Tiesto, trance etc... it's a bitch of an argument that would have us plunge into philosophy or psycology and as I'm neither a philopher nor a shrink, I am not goin there...) but this points to the fact the world population is divided into a lemming-like humanoid, bi-ped scattered cluttering of herds and more "actually real" human beings....then u have so-called "smart ppl" who play that system well, then u might have your next Justice or your next Tiesto, or next Obama, or next Hitler.. it's that brutal... 2 different ways of understanding living !
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It's a marginal - as opposed to popular - sector. Few people are actually buying cds because few people consider themselves interested by the genre.
It's also very segmented and saturated. There are too many records, too many labels and people get confused and are not willing to spend an expensive 20-25 euros/dollars on a record they're not sure they'll like.
then you are expressing dissatisfaction with a consumer-oriented, hyper-capitalist society..like the one which we live in ?.. i personally do not find it difficult to know what I like.. the more wack shit screaming at me with either hyper compressed waveforms or super-duper marketing/packaging, adverstising the ads ad nauseum etc etc...the more of that comes out, the less I buy it, the more I develop my good tastes, become more serious about what i like and not like....but I still buy, still search, still listen with as much excitement...
What i hear in Morgan's words is that he understands the world is fucked, he feels he's unable to win the fight, because fighting it in traditional terms is pointless and itr feels stupid, like : "How excited R we supposed to be about going to vote for a MacObama or a MacCain ??? " I mean do we know these ppl, who they are, where they come from ??? "they read off a script someone else wrote ?"
I'm thinkin IMAGINATION's 'New Dimension' and its lyrics :
"calling in the middle of a new dimension, walking and talking in one direction, can we be searching for a revelation, captivates a geneeeraaaatiooon ! "
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| #12 / Sat, 13 Sep 08 22:14 "Considering what music has turned into, releasing it today is like opening a transfat restaurant. I like doing recorded music. I don't want to perform. I don't want to DJ. I just want to record music.
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It takes a very honest artist to say it that clearly. I'll be ears for his next release.
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| #13 / Sun, 14 Sep 08 02:12 quote:
Posted by VlarghThe problem with sales in the electronic music industry is much deeper than people just illegally downloading everything and never paying.
Indeed, it's deeper, but I don't think we share the same view on this 'deepness'. The impact of Technology on the way we think, behave, engage in culture, politics and social behaviour is immense. So saying the shite position the music (industry) is in right now is down to kids downloading is wrong. But because of the way music is compressed, distributed, listened to, shared and because of all these less thoroughly experienced does cause the current decline in musical value. When the playback of a music format gives you less then what is sonically possible, when producers and marketeers engage in the loudness war, when bands write songs that just bang bang bang and bang on your head, it's no wonder nobody KNOWS or expects more. But surely one can't argue that there isn't. DVD's can carry more dynamics then the human ear can pick up, still we are sonically blasted whenever we sit down for any kind of feature film. All of this results in less dynamics in everything, on the market place, on the formats (due to the use of really hard and bad compression) and in the overall value we ascribe to music. Personally I hope I'll never be found considering music a commodity, though I understand that's how a market economy works. My (kid) brother is 18 years old and has never ever both any music ever. He just grabs it from me whenever he comes round to my place. I'm going to kick his butt soon for this...
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| #14 / Mon, 15 Sep 08 00:02 I can certainly understand his frustration, but he needs to realize that this is now the nature of the industry. If you want to make "recording artist" your primary occupation, then work the system! Get viral. Cultivate an image for yourself. Spread the word anyway you can. If you truly believe in your music, then promoting it shouldn't be considered tacky or taboo. And if someone just told you that your new _unreleased_ album is really good, call them on it. Tell them that you appreciate it, but that you expect them to pay for it when it comes out. There's no shame in this. Use download services to your advantage. Get chummy with iTunes, Amazon, Beatport, Bleep, whatever. The money will come.
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| #15 / Mon, 15 Sep 08 16:40 I sit down and listen
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| #16 / Wed, 17 Sep 08 17:38 it's so sad to me too....
i am just about to write to him how much i love his this ablum. truely!!! even finding it is so much better than any junior boys previous ablums.
the sound goes so deep and subtle, and the emotion tackles well with melancholy. but very modern and urban!
but i don't dare to say it any more, not just because i at all show no any interest to his mum or ...dad.
wish morgan geist keep on doing the best, but without him in the continue industry, the world could still go around.
you just can't hold all back, like your aging.
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| #17 / Thu, 18 Sep 08 02:37 There's nothing wrong with hating the industry or not wanting to perform live or dj. But I guess if you don't have any other source of income that becomes a problem in the long run. Still, he hasn't released an LP in 11 years, and that has nothing to do with the industry. That's on him. That said, I'm still a fan and I'm really happy he's releasing more music..!
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| #18 / Mon, 13 Oct 08 22:03 Hey Fanboys and Girls, Love Morgan? Yeah, we do, too. Check out a feature interview we did with the man himself on Earplug, Flavorpill's bi-weekly music mag:
earplug.cc/174586
YOURS, FPill
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| #19 / Tue, 01 Mar 11 14:42 great interview
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