From Tony Horner Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 15:19
From Tony Horner Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 15:19
Hello all There comes a time for every newbie to throw in their two cents' worth (with our dollar valued so low, two cents Australian is pretty close to nothing) and wait to get savaged... Irene McC wrote:- >On 21 Oct 98, Greg Eden wrote re: Re: Subject: Re: (idm) Jockey Slut: >> >23 years and counting! it's a dump. >> you should try living in sheffield. >Is this turning into a 'let's-slag-off-our-hometown' >fest? Come and visit me in Cape Town South Africa and >experience heaven on earth (at least in the >geographical/physical sense). >Summer's HERE ! We have mountains, sea and scenery - >even a few half decent music shops. Hmmm... Manchester, Sheffield - "dumps"? I live in Brisbane - great climate, excellent beaches nearby, laidback lifestyle, sun, etc... But the city's dominant dance music tastes run to commercial tracks and happy hardcore. Is there, he suggests jokingly, an inverse proportional relationship between these two factors? That is, as the lifestyle becomes more pleasant, does the music around you becomes more crap? Hmmm... Re the ongoing Wire vs Jockey Slut vs other-magazines-Brisbane-shops-don't-get debate: martin burbridge wrote:- >maybe i'm being obvious about this but doesn't one >cover dance music that is sometimes experimental and >the other covers experimental music you can sometimes >dance to. seems like another case of whether apples >or oranges is currently yer bag. Exactly. And picking up a hip mag is no substitute for forming your own opinions about music. I sometimes find that if I read carefully the work of journalists I dislike, I can still get a reasonable idea of what a given record sounds like, and whether I'll like it, regardless of whether or not the journo does. Actually, I find this list is probably the best resource for learning about music that falls within its parameters (however IDM is defined), and a mag by its contributors would be a formidable publication indeed (its main strengths would be writers with solid musical knowledge and less arrogance than is often the case). So that's another subscriber, then. (Conflict of interest warning: I'm a journalist for a local music mag, but it's nothing for The Wire, etc to lose any sleep over.) Sorry to go on so long... Cheers, Tony == Tony Horner xxxx@xx.xxx.xx _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com