Comments on: francois kevorkian http://truthislightrecords.com/truthislight/?p=238 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brad Winter http://truthislightrecords.com/truthislight/?p=238&cpage=1#comment-300 Brad Winter Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:37:41 +0000 http://truthislightrecords.com/truthislight/?p=238#comment-300 Obviously the internet and cheap technology gives more people the capacity to create and distribute music, so obviously a lot of garbage will start to get made and heard, but it's stupid to assume that this means that humans are becoming desensitized and we no longer know what "real music" means or feels like. That's like saying that since McDonalds and Coca Cola have taken over the earth, suddenly people no longer understand how much better tasting a home-cooked meal is! The internet is your giant version of the flooded basement of records, with nuggets buried 3 crates deep. There is good new shit out there, but you have to know where to look. You and FK just don't know, don't see, and can't hear. Instead of falling back to technological dismay and contempt for the younger generation, try actively searching for interesting online scenes, communities and netlabels. Dig deeper. It's not all itunes, pirate bay, and soundcloud! I mean, you're entirely right that songs should be fit for release before going online, that would make things much easier!! But what could "fit for the internet" possibly mean? How can the internet possibly ever be discerning, when it empowers all of humanity equally, by it's very nature? Obviously there used to be a lot of local scenes all over the world with long incubation periods! But back then there was no such thing as style or genre, there wasn't even such thing as the word "music" or "art" in many societies. Music just WAS - however it was in your particular society. There was no mainstream globalized greedy-ass piece of shit record industry back then either, and we're tearing it back down now as we speak, thank god! Obviously the internet and cheap technology gives more people the capacity to create and distribute music, so obviously a lot of garbage will start to get made and heard, but it’s stupid to assume that this means that humans are becoming desensitized and we no longer know what “real music” means or feels like. That’s like saying that since McDonalds and Coca Cola have taken over the earth, suddenly people no longer understand how much better tasting a home-cooked meal is! The internet is your giant version of the flooded basement of records, with nuggets buried 3 crates deep. There is good new shit out there, but you have to know where to look. You and FK just don’t know, don’t see, and can’t hear. Instead of falling back to technological dismay and contempt for the younger generation, try actively searching for interesting online scenes, communities and netlabels. Dig deeper. It’s not all itunes, pirate bay, and soundcloud!

I mean, you’re entirely right that songs should be fit for release before going online, that would make things much easier!! But what could “fit for the internet” possibly mean? How can the internet possibly ever be discerning, when it empowers all of humanity equally, by it’s very nature?

Obviously there used to be a lot of local scenes all over the world with long incubation periods! But back then there was no such thing as style or genre, there wasn’t even such thing as the word “music” or “art” in many societies. Music just WAS – however it was in your particular society. There was no mainstream globalized greedy-ass piece of shit record industry back then either, and we’re tearing it back down now as we speak, thank god!

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