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General Lighting wrote:on the subjects of “sell outs”, worth remembering that in the early 90s a lot of cash gained from the more “commercial” rave tunes was re-invested in studios for the use of more underground artists..
Re-investment in the underground music scene surely doesn’t constitute a “sell out”. My understanding of a sellout is an underground act that make it big, sign their contract and then become record industry puppets, churning out nothing more than “hard pop”….
My god GL, thanks for such a detailed reply. I suppose I’d want the channel to go Europe-wide eventually, but for now UK and Eire would be OK. As there’s only a population of 4 million in Eire there wouldn’t be enough people watching to attract advertisers to make it viable. The underground music scene is still very much in its infancy here – two years ago you couldn’t get a proper Psy-trance gig for love nor money, that’s how young it is.
As to peeps who say “get underground music on TV and it will go all commercial”, well maybe, but there is ALWAYS more wonderful underground music to source from all around the world. What I want to achieve is to show people that ther IS an alternative to the shite they are showing on MTV Dance (now THAT channel is just a JOKE).:laugh_at:
The idea is that those who want to sell out can do just that (and good luck to them) – there are always millions more to take their place. Shortage of good underground material will never be a problem. In theory you’d never even have to play the same track twice.
Anyway since when did good music suddenly become bad music just because more people are listening to it? That just doesn’t make sense.:crazy_fre I still love Underworld and The Prodigy even though they’ve hit the bigtime (Got Long Train playin in the background at the moment!)
If I won the Lotto I’d go for it big time. I suppose I’m hoping someone will rob the idea and do it so that I don’t have to!
PLUR
Personally, I can’t understand why people get so purist about music. What they are doing is closing themselves off to the possibility of finding something else that they love.
My favourite is psy trance, but I will never say no to Techno, Breaks, DNB, Jungle, Reggae, Dibdub, Acid, House, etc etc etc. My only regret is that I will never live to hear all the great music that’s out there. 😥
General Lighting wrote:The only things I’m not that keen on are UKG and R&B/rap tunes which have violent/negative lyrics – I do feel that because music is powerful – its a bit fucked up making a living out of bigging up all that violence and degradation of women and encouraging youths to follow you…What he said. I hate that stuff and I believe that it is powerful enough to encite violence. And there seems to be SO MUCH of it on the satellite music channels.:rant:
But other than that, bring it on!
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