Re: [microsound] Farben/Gramm

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

> my eyes skipped over that last line at first, but then i realized s://kimo
> is a *record store*. this doesn't automatically disqualify it, of course --
> tower, of all people, managed to do a decent enough job with "pulse" for a
> few years there (desert island discs, anyone?) -- but still i wonder at
> s://kimo's motivation in attaching a zine to its operation. it all depends
> on the "business model," of course, but where i come from this sort of
> thing is generally referred to as a "conflict of interest."

should hrvatski's forced exposure reviews be considered for
disqualification too?

should the all-music guide, a part of "one of the nation's largest home
entertainment product distribution, fulfillment and infrastructure
companies", be shunned as nothing but a corporate umbrella with musical
opinion as a by-product?

or: why are we even comparing tower & skimo to begin with?  if there's
any conflict of interest here, methinks it falls quite squarely into the
"utterly bening" category...

(for the record, i have visited the aforementioned sites, fe.org &
allmusic.com, hundreds of times & have found countless snippets of
musical information.  i certainly wonder for one if i would have ever
been interested in, oh, say, autechre, without a certain sean cooper's
reviews...)

~ david