From: Dan (dzacks@po-box.mcgill.ca)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 06:01:11 CEST
From Toronto: Tool is as ubiquitous here as anywhere else. Why? Because
it has the corporate music juggernaut promoting it. As such, it is closer
to commodity then music and it is most certainly mainstream. How can a band
that enjoys commercial radio and music television rotation not be
mainstream? These media not only define the mainstream, they are the
mainstream.
More importantly, dismissing disco off-hand is mere ignorance. The
distinctions between disco and funk and jazz often disappear in the
groove-based music we all love. You may well have issues with the
commercial, commodified manifestations of disco and this would not be
unreasonable. But the real disco, the underground disco, this is one of the
key foundations of the contemporary dance underground.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Wm. ERROL PACE [mailto:wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com]
Sent: August 27, 2002 8:29 PM
To: stimp@aei.ca; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] Funny requests, was -- 21st century urban music
observation.)
> > Dude, no offense, but if you think that Tool fits into the rest of your
>top
> > ten list, then I would say that the problem lies with you. Tool is far
>from
> > being a throwaway alternative radio band.
> >
> > Stimp
>
>this may be true, but they *are* as far from funky house music as you can
>get.
>
>mb
Tool Mainstream? Nah I can't see it even in places like Toronto, San Fran,
or Frankfurt. But I would take listening to Tool anyday over all that
Euro-Techno-Pop-Sissy-Nights at the Roxbury-Haddaway Fodder that permeates
the airways and this list at times you know the kind of fodder that
stimulates the vomitting reflex. Some may see it as far fetched but I feel
the Funk sometimes when I hear Tool or Perfect Circle. If MTV is a vision
of what is considered Mainstream hten I think its time to talk to Coach
Madden about punting the ball and getting out of the game until another wave
comes around. It does appear that things go in circles and God Forbid then
that means Disco will come back around, I try to be positive but once again
it is difficult to find anything remotely redeaming about that genre or that
time period. I know someone out there in the vast Sonic Wastelands is going
to tell me that Acid Jazz and everything else revolves around Disco but they
would have a difficult time convincing me of that.
For me its time to think of a 60 minute version of Fenomenon's "Out of
Control" from Disc 1 of Hedkandi's Winter Chill 3, Now That is More Like
It!!!
Stimp!!! Great to hear you pipe in!!! BTW, today 27 Aug 02 is Down Town
Julie Brown's 39th Birthday and I have to thank God for such an exquisite
Beauty, Wubba Wubba Wubba!!! Toodle Pip, Purple Haze and Happy Trails!!!
Semper Motociclismo,
Pace'
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