From cognition Sent Thu, Feb 17th 2000, 14:24
agreed, rob. though i'm also a strict no drugs, no meat/animal products (strict vegetarian) person (not religious like him, though), try to do good kind of person with personal politics and such, i think moby is a total idiot. other than that "go!" track he did early on, it's just been crap, IMO. and i heard him do a dj set online recently and it was pathetic the horrible songs he was playing. if he's not a dj but his "name power" gets him dj bookings, he could at least play and expose his followers to some music of quality. he djed after derrick may and it was disgusting how moby totally killed the vibe may had built up. anyway, i'm digressing; i think it is apalling that white men like moby and fatboy slim and others bastardize black standards/spirituals/classics to make their "electronica" shite. how can that be "music for the year 2000?" (my quotes) heck, anyone with access to the Lomax compendiums can make money off the backs of dead black *musicians* and *artists* (i'm stressing the words on purpose). it takes some ethics to *not* do this, but fatboy, moby, et al seem content to toss all sense of morals et al out the window when it comes to making radio friendly poplectronica. related: every time i go into the local record store here, they're playing that aphrodite "album". the owner and i both agree it stinks, but he says every time he plays it, he sells copies. listening to aphrodite, it's obvious that it's all mantronix' "king of the beats", schooly d's "saturday night" et al, etc, etc, etc. but, with aphrodite making the big bucks and with major label support, does he clear those samples? NOPE! i can understand how/why people who press up limited runs of material on vinyl that uses samples don't clear their samples, but for someone like aphrodite making money on the backs of pioneers like schooly d and mantronix et al and not giving them *any credit* whatsoever in the liner notes, it shows that he cares only about the $. he can afford to clear samples, but chooses not to. the worst thing is that the kids getting into the aphrodite are *really* getting into the schooly d, mantronix et al that he's *sampling*, yet, because he doesn't credit them, schooly d, mantronix and the others that made his music possible don't benefit. some are about the $, while others are about the music. andrew duke Robert Galbraith wrote: > Do we really need this level of interactivity. > Isn't it enough to hear gospel and blues > stuff over fatboy slim beats. I'm always > shocked at how the press chooses moby > as a spokesperson for electronic culture. > > Rob > > component records > http://www.mindstorm.com/component > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Frank St.Jacques <xxxxx.xx.xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> > To: idm.list <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:04 PM > Subject: (idm) article by moby in Time > > Hello, > > There is a short article by > Moby in the February 21st > issue of Time magazine. It's > titled, "How will we Listen > to Music". He suggests > that in the future music will > be instantly accessible and > infinitely variable. For > example, "People...will be > able to...take the drums from > a Led Zepplin song and put > Billie Holiday's vocals on top > of them and then play the whole > thing backward and twice as fast > but at the original pitch". > Sounds lovely! cheers, > > frank > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > For additional commands, e-mail: xxx-xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > For additional commands, e-mail: xxx-xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx -- Cognition/Andrew Duke's In The Mix mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xx http://techno.ca/cognition 1096 Queen St #123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9