Re: N'Sync * Craft vs. Art

From: Steve Catanzaro (stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 17:24:15 CEST

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    >a lot of the nu-jazz stuff is
    > technology driven. Not that I'm complaining - I like it. But there's only
    so
    > much you can do with harmony/melody/groove before it stops being music
    this
    > list would be interested in.
    >
    > Al.

    Al.;
    Please elaborate. I'm trying to understand what you're saying, especially
    this last sentence. Are you saying there is a certain point at which most
    aj-ers tune out, because the music starts getting too innovative / creative
    / "out"?

    Consider nu-jazz, broadly speaking (which covers everyone from Amon Tobin,
    Kid Koala, Roni Size, Compost, Ninja, P'taah / Ubiquity, UFO, Dego and 4
    Hero, etc... even, grudgingly, some non e:trinity 2 step), and all kinds of
    broadly categorized diverse stuff). Aren't these artists, particularly those
    who have started to achieve fairly large commercial success, subject to the
    same "art" - "market" pressures as anyone else? And do they necessarily have
    to be at war?

    "If I walk into a record store and see my record still in the bin, I feel
    I've failed."

                                                                                
        --- Roni Size.



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