One of the perrennial issues in the UK music press is: music made with
'real' instruments vs music made with electronics. It's been surprising how
the mainstream music press (NME, Melody Maker, Select) have really taken to
Trip Hop/ Mo'Wax - they've traditionally always been extremely cynical
about Acid Jazz, and have never really given all that much credence to Hip
Hop. One of the major problems is that the press has never really gone
beyond the Beatles in terms of what they like (ie white boys, bass, drums,
guitars) and despite everything that house, techno, hip hop has done in
terms of moving music forward, the Beatles line up is still considered to
be the 'real' way to make music. At the end of the day, music is music no
matter how it's made, so why do people insist on saying that there are
right and wrong ways to make music? It pisses me off.
Let me know what you think.
Kevin @ Acid Jazz