Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:15:20 -0800
>
>I definitely agree that many of the UK mags (MixMag, Muzik, etc) have gone
>crazy with their "club culture" coverage at the expense of the music. DJ
>magazine seems to still be vital despite it's endless equipment ads due to
>it's timely publishing schedule of every other week and excellent columns
>and charts. To me the features and whatever else is in there are gravy.
>Jockey Slut is pretty good too, but due to it's bimonthly nature it's not as
>timely as I'd like.
Well, according to the last Jockey Slut they'll be going to monthley,
and moving to London (from Manchester) so hopefully they'll keep up
the good work.
erik g
>Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
>Groove Distribution
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brock @ Motormouthmedia [mailto:bmotor@pacbell.net]
>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 9:04 PM
>To: Leslie
>Cc: acid jazz
>Subject: music press
>
>
>----------
>>From: Leslie <icehouse@redshift.com>
>>To: "Brock @ Motormouthmedia" <bmotor@pacbell.net>
>>Subject: Re: music writing...
>>Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2000, 9:59 AM
>
>> Beside Straight No Chaser, I have read Muzik, Mixmag, Q, Jockey Sluts,
>> Downbeat, you name the periodical and I have probably perused it's pages
>at
>> one time or another. Many of these mags tend to lose their focus on the
>music
>> and in the case of rags like Mixmag and Muzik, seem more interested on the
>> gratuitous sex, the over-the-top drug abuse and the beautiful but
>> scantily-clad "folks" at the big commercial clubs in the UK. Downbeat has
>been
>> consistent over the years but it does'nt seem to be very favourably
>disposed
>> to AcidJazz.
>
>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
>
>
>PS Some sites worth checking (not all a/j but solid):
>
>www.hyperreal.org
>www.dublab.com
>www.urbansounds.com
>http://techno.ca/cognition/home.htm
>www.deephousenetwork.com/frameset_home.html
>www.pitchforkmedia.com
>www.sonik.demon.nl/forcefield/forcefield.html
>http://ad.techno.org/
>www.groovesmag.com
>www.techno.ca/communication/lists/tech-house/
>
>Lots more out there, seek and ye shall find...
>
>
>
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