From Will Samuels Sent Tue, Jan 12th 1999, 02:31
From Will Samuels Sent Tue, Jan 12th 1999, 02:31
--zimbo <xxxx@xxx.xxx> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Andrew Hime wrote: > > > > In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going > > > straight at your head like a bullet for '99! > > > > Better take me out now, then. Can you SoCal guys get over yourselves now? > > yeah, as soon as the english folk get over themselves > with their skam and warp praise. and the germans for > their local artists. and the detroit guys for > their.. well, you get the idea. Skam and Warp are great labels the amount of dialogue spent on this list about those two labels is a little sickening. Yes they put out great stuff, but there are way too many posts every fucking day about Boards of Canada and other Skam or Warp artists. Let's all agree they are good and move on to other electronic music. We don't need 20+ posts a day saying the same fucking thing about the same artist With regards to Detroit and other American electronic music, that stuff rarely gets the props that it deserves. The distribution of american techno artists sucks in the U.S. Ask smaller labels that try to put out quality electronic releases about how easy it is to get their stuff distributed. When Schematic first started they couldn't even get Watts Dist to carry their releases. I had to call them directly because distributors were ignoring them. That's why Isophlux sold most of the Lexaunculpt 12"s to Germany and why it's hard to find in the US. Lance posted recently that he was glad that IDM had expanded it's view a little more. That IDM isn't all about FSOL, RDJ, and Orbital anymore. The reason I unsubbed a while back is because it got pretty boring reading about RDJ, Warp and Rephlex everyday. It's a little refreshing to see more people talking about other things. But it's still too Warp/Skam/Musik Aus Strom oriented at times. Anything released from those labels will be talked to death, while a really quality release from Planet E barely gets mentioned > how is it brock is in need of getting over himself > because hes really into what a local artist has put > out? and beyond that, how is he representative of > "you so-cal guys"? Lexaunculpt is really good, he deserves props. I am from So-Cal and I continually talk about alot of the people that I think deserve mention like Paul Mac, Anthony Shakir, James Ruskin, Ed Rush and Optical, Andy C, Cari Lekebusch's older releases and many other artists. > fact of the matter is, we "socal guys", just like the > rest of the world, get excited over good music. it > just so happens we have some *good* and solid > material coming to us from just up the block.. There are alot of quality LA/OC releases. I really love the new John Tejada on Residual (as well as alot of his Palette releases), Plug Research has put out a lot good stuff, and I am eagerly awaiting the new Orange release. There's good reason to talk about the music scene here. Just as I hope other people talk about good upcoming people from your areas. > and, hopefully, much of that music will be coming to > other areas soon via gonzis label 'orange'. Cheers _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com