Posts by bob daktari
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As a migrant (wtf) I'd also like to welcome thewireless - looks great
I do hope this website initiative isn't the justification to never revisit the concept of a youth radio network - something that for the time being still has much merit (and much to fear).
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Stephen R,
One of the claims I’ve seen is that with so many new books coming out, an author is more at risk of not being noticed than of being pirated, and that giving away e-books (especially of older back-catalog stuff) can lead to increases in both the sales of the back-catalog and new books by the same author
exactly the same problem musicians (and others) face - there is so much accessible to those consuming art/culture, (that can be digitalised), being released & re-released and the like consumers are overloaded with choice and as such there's a huge drop off in sales from the big sellers (that chart and have major backing/marketing) and the rest
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Given Whaleoil's alleged friendship of John Banks and both parties animosity towards Mr Dotcom I can't but think its a Dotcom beatup story for the week that Banks is headline news. A timely distraction using a very newsworthy piece of local content...
Samuel Scott's idea of having a digital version of books as part of buying the physical copy has massive merit, something publishers should take up (learn) from the music biz
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Hard News: Moving right along?, in reply to Alan Moore,
the mistake is being caught - cheating (generally) for politicians is their default setting - not being caught is the skill and art of their craft or so one would presume
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I'm not the target market for hip hop nor pop, but Royals deserved its win so so very much and In the Neighbourhood is one of the great NZ songs FACT
on top of that outburst I'm loving I Spy - if anyone has the opportunity to see Estere and Lola (her MPC) perform do it - so endearing and smile inducingly good
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and people (media et al) have the gail to wonder why the public is generally disengaged from local body politics....
we deserve so much better and I reckon things political will only get worse
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Luke Williamson,
you'll find more woman "DJing" in this sort of setting than pretty much any other electronic scene....
This is party culture - not music.... as a music person who loves electronic forms this leaves me cold for many others however it is the best time ever!
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Tom Beard,
when you read interviews with the founders of techno and the visionaries of house from the US they all cite Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode the synth bands of the 80s and the like as major influences on what they went on to create - in many ways they were trying to emulate that which they heard but couldn't afford the gear, the stripped back minimal instrumentation which resulted is their homage
I've been fortunate to meet and hang with a lot of these people over the years and the single best ice breaker I've found with them is to mention a fondness for 80s synth bands...
Complex and interesting it is :)
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Tom Beard,
the 90s bid was no failure - seeds sown... and all that
EDM rides the "celeb" culture marketing train and as such will attract peoples condemnation (rightly so in my head). Not for music people.
exhibit a:
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Story, in reply to Tom Beard,
the modern day EDM movement is relatively new(ish) to the US as it is shown in those links- ie brash, money driven and largely musically vacuous with posing DJs who gesture madly whilst a pre mixed CD or file plays (paris hilton et al) is the embodiment of its form. But its not new per se.
There's always been a solid club culture in the US for electronic music in all its forms and always will be - this continues largely untouched by EDM.
The "rave" scene that was big and flourishing with the alternative lifestyle and college kid crowd has to varying degrees been the platform for EDM to spring from - a highly commercialised variant of. Not that dissimilar to the superclubs trance ruled in the UK and the mecca that is ibiza for the party crew.