Re: hype, Doers and secondhanders >

[Stuart Argabright <argabright@xxxxxxx>]

OK ...
If you 'haven't even heard Tetsuo yet'  ?
Get an op - and then you can disagree based on something.
My beef is not about the teen aged girls wearing his T Shirts
(and where does that happen anyway ?)

> okay smartie pants, how about sharing with us some of these phenomenal,
> completely un-hyped acts from out there, beyond the borders of our humble bog.
> i know i'm caught up in all the hoopla surrounding this scene, i mean, i
> haven't even heard tetsu before, i just assumed he was great because of all
> the teen aged girls wearing his t-shirts. laptops too, i never even used one
> but i just assumed they were the coolest thing since my medication because you
> can read email in the park and i heard that in few years you'll be able to
> plug them into your brain.
>
 but for real, i can't believe that you could be a member of this list and
> still tell me, with a straight face, that pict.soul, active / freeze, and
> fragments of dots are overhyped, crappy albums. if anything, they haven't been
> hyped enough. why is it hype when people share their favorites on this list?
> we're all here to offer our humble resources to each other, no? i will grant
> that terre can get a little, well, interstitial, at times and yeah, everybody
> that did see the bright lights they used to point at the sky at nigh probably
> thought that they were decent.
> ciao,
 
And, 'for real / with a straight face' ,
did I necessarily say those releases are crappy albums ?
Carl Stone - much respect, great stuff,
deserves to be heard above and beyond.

Also I wasn't referring to 'sharing faves' as hype.

The general point I am/was making is that there are those who make music and
are happy to be doing it and getting a fair release/and not ripped too badly
by the label (tiny indie, middle sized or Major) they dealt with  -
and there are those more concerned about the T Shirts ,
the lipstick, or sucking up for good reviews then complaining when they
don't get a good (enough) one.
Doers and secondhanders.

They divide the quote real world, wherever musicians are sold,
Ars Electronica , The Whitney, Wired or Wire
Be it microsound, glitch , 'IDM' or
whatever neu (thankfully as yet unnamed) underground type - niche
that's being brewed on computer at the moment.

But when you can't tell what's hype from what's not (for real) -
you just have to ck it out Yourself beforehand and then ...

And Cheers