Re: Real Music v trip Hop

SHANNON BRIGGS (sbriggs@enterprise.powerup.com.au)
Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:30:55 +1000


> 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
> 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

yeah, its a real shame. and I kind of put it down to the huge generation
gap. I guess because technology has moved forward at such a huge pace in
the last few years, making our music easier to create, a lot of the
'musical purists' (as they might call themselves) are kinda pissed that
they had to go through 'X' amount of years in school learing how to strum
a guitar or whatever, only to have some geeky kid bang out a full
electronic concerto on his sampler.
I know that it sounds really generalistic, but i'm sure you all get the
drift of my argument.

Shannon 'Frenzie' Briggs <Sbriggs@enterprise.powerup.com.au> Spinning Wheel