Wow this album has blown up it's sold out almost verywhere in
Boston. Was it
the Saint that did it or just air time on MTV and big commercial
radio
stations. This is just another step in a the gradual process of
main
streaming of techno/electronic music others are the chemicals
prodigy etc!!!!
well, that's not that easy. techno/electronica scene is much wider and
more diverse
than acid-jazz. and, as most of us noticed with a-j, there's the same
problem there -
going mainstream etc.
(there's a never ending debate on this thread on IDM list, just
substitute "IDM"
with "acid-jazz" and all the amazingly well fit on this list)
it seems that since techno/electronica is more diverse than a-j, all the
divisions
there run deeper - also with this commercialization thing
prodigy and chems are in general disregard (more than that, IDM list is
not that much
concerned with vocabulary used..), and not only on IDM (-> Intelligent
Dance Music),
but I=A0guess with most people more into techno/electronica, and
impression of majority
of that crowd is that the chems etc. are now closer to pop
also new U2 album, hailed in the media as a sign of techno entering
mainstream,
is hardly noticed, and never in a positive way
Daft Punk comes from a very specific area, electronica/house frontier,
but I wouldn't say house is now that far from mainstream, so if folks
are
buying out 'Homework', it doesn't necessarily say that techno goes
mainstream
I guess it really kicks when it comes to dance floor, so that's why its
being
sold out (can't wait till my first Technics to check it myself...)
And I believe acid jazz is much closer to being mainstream
Acid Jazz is still played mostly with those nice traditional
instruments,
and most of people not seriously into any sort of music tend
to prefer them to 'computers', because it makes them believe
that 'computer'-generated music is more simple/dumb/unhuman/whatever
(which is bullshit btw)
This attitude might change with all this info-revolution,
but still people might prefer 'real' sound to this that resembles their
PC's
sound card (unless they spent their $ on AWE32 or better),
at least for some time. and that's a chance (?) for acid-jazz
Prodigy etc. became popular because in many ways they resemble rock,
even though they might be using different instruments,
which is similar to ppl's attitude towards computers (well, this might
be just
a Central European experience), and I mean using them to just do things
done before in another way, without using their new possibilities
(hope you know what I mean - say lots of people use computers
just as a better typewriter/caluclator, while it's much more than
that..)
btw, ppl into DJing: does it make sense to start with Gemini? (BD?=A0DD?)
since I live in Poland, used Technics is out of question (where the hell
would I=A0buy it? :-( )
(sorry for being off-topic)
(and for the bandwidth)