Re: music press


Calvin Ho (calvin@hklink.net)
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 04:43:00 -0000



Well put. This happens in the magzine bizz. A so called club-mag in Hong
Kong does nothing our club scene. It's predictable in editorial, it
doesn't rock any boats about parties, djs or any other thing in
particular. All it does is a rag mag that is supported and controlled by
advertisers. ie. Promoters. The magazine feels the pressure that they
will not advertise if they ripped into the promoter's party. Plus it
reviews 4 records a month, that is what the record companies give them,
and they are too scared not to review. It is a free mag, but my freedom
is not to read it.

How sad.

>Leslie and the rest of ya -
>
>I'd always bemoaned the same lack of coverage in UK mags, and over the past
>years that I've read Mixmag etc. it seems like you can literally chart the
>downward spiral into crap coverage and more t&a photos and Miss Moneypenny
>ads than ever before. Eventually I gave up on these mags, realizing that
>mags like Straight No Chaser, XLR8R, The Wire, and others were actually true
>to the music, as opposed to their advertisers.
>
>It wasn't until I had a conversation with Mixmaster Morris when he was out
>here in LA a month or so ago that I realized how truly bad the whole UK
>press scene is. Apparently Pete Tong now owns Mixmag UK, and a lot of the
>major clubs are owned/run by superstar DJ's - Home, the big new club in
>London, is apparently owned by Paul Oakenfold. So you've got this
>incestuous circle where the press, superclubs, and larger dance labels are
>all in the same little boys' club and if you don't support what they're
>pushing (i.e. chart house/prog trance), you're out of the game. Morris is a
>prime example - he used to write a column for Mixmag (best thing in there!),
>but after a few scathing indictments of the whole Ibiza clique in print the
>major advertisers put enough pressure on the editors to yank his column and
>he's out on the street.
>
>It seems like it's all b/c of the commercialization of the scene over there,
>and I can't help but think the same thing will eventually happen stateside.
>So I wouldn't really trust many mags that were running on that kind of game
>anyway. IMHO, the truest, most cutting-edge info that's out there nowadays
>is found on lists like this and various web 'zines/review sites - sources
>that aren't tainted by this whole cycle of hype and blatant self-promotion.
>My 0.02...Brock

Regards,
Calvin Ho (dj KidcaL)

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