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Edited Aug 21, 2011, 12:26
Re: Music of the mad.
Aug 20, 2011, 21:28
Hunter T Wolfe wrote:
IanB wrote:
Robot Emperor wrote:
Popel Vooje wrote:
Daminxa wrote:
That's true!

I wonder if we'll witness a mass outburst of eccentric creativity as a result of the recent cuts?


I was talking about this with a couple of friends in the pub last night - we were cautiously hoping that increasing levels of unemployment coupled with affordability of CDrs and home recording set-ups would lead to another creative explosion like the advent of post-punk in the late 70s and rave in the late 80s. As much as I'd like to believe that'll happen though, I'm not holding my breath.


Personally I'm willing to put up with shit music if we can get rid of the increasing levels of unemployment.


How different would say "Where Were You?" or "Damaged Goods" have been if the artsts had made them in Pro Tools and endlessly worked them over. Who wants to hear a quantised Mekons? I love the idea of records made under challenging circumstances. The world of Leisure Recording isn't especially good for the art I don't think.



Absolutely. The last thing we need is more people making records just because they've got nothing better to do. The truly driven will always find a way.




There is a fair amount of that and then there are people like Mark (Spaceship) and Black Tempest turning out music that is as good as anything else in the same genres.

I think I preferred the world when the main barrier to getting a record into the world was what you were personally prepared to do to make it happen. Now the sheer volume of releases, all of which are on a level playing field, that sell less than 100 copies for the most part (never mind 1000) is choking the pipe.

People being creative is fantastic (and I love the idea of a community of makers not just a community of listeners who take what is given to them) but for the consumer it is a bit of a nightmare. I think I read somewhere that there will be something like 100,000 new album releaes this year. Compared with 12,000 in the mid 80s. Who can hope to keep up? No reliable filters. That's the problem I think.
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