Steve Oldmeadow (soldmeadow@bigpond.com)
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:58:36 +1100
----- Original Message -----
From: Dirk van den Heuvel <dirkv@groovedis.com>
To: Steve Oldmeadow <soldmeadow@bigpond.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: 21/01/2000 10:53
Subject: RE: More House not House questions?
> Steve said:
>
> "I think you can sell just as much music by referencing it to existing
music
> people may already know. This approach seems to work for stores like
Amazon
> and CD Now."
>
> That's a good point Steve except they are really selling the records I do.
> Check our website and THEN look at CDNow or Amazon and you'll see the
> problem. Without genres and sub-genres it would be next to impossible for
me
> to sell the records I get every week to the stores across the country that
> stock new, cutting edge imports. I can't (for too many reasons to go into
> here) make sound samples and lists of similar records for every new single
> we get, yet the store buyer still needs to know what kind of record it is,
> what section of his/her store to put it in, etc. Genres and sub-genres
> facilitate that (along with commonly recognized labels and artists).
I've got no problems with the genres used on your site or in your new
release e-mails. I'm talking more about finer grains of classification like
the 50 shades of house that seem to exist or endless forms of drum and bass.
I guess I'm interested in this House not House stuff because it actually
sounded like it might be something new rather than just a micro genre.
On a tangent - I did go to your site in the hope of hearing some House not
House stuff. If you put some up would it go in the downbeat, acid jazz or
house section?
> And
> what exactly is the difference/problem with describing a new record mixing
> breakbeats and trance keyboards as "breaktrance" instead of saying "sounds
> like Hybrid"?
>
I have no problem with mixing genres. I actually think music could be
described using fuzzy set theory e.g. a track belongs 50% to the jazz
category, 50% to the house category and 20% to the trip hop category.
However, such genre mashing only really works when the mashed genres are
well understood.
> Last point: without little catch all genre names,how many people who like
> records from say PEOPLE Records would know to check out MAIN SQUEEZE or
LAWS
> OF MOTION??
>
But if you've never (knowingly) heard tracks on any of those labels (like
me) that info does you little good.
Steve
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