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The State of Electronica

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Author: strangus on April 30 2008

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This is a decent article with Prodigy, Moby, and Underworld. They talk about the scene, and breaking into the US market.

"Apart from maybe The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, electronic dance music has been made by faceless producers in bedroom studios. That's part of the beauty of the scene, but music being so anonymous makes it hard for corporations to get behind it." -- Moby

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04/30/08 + Zanf

Moby said: "That's part of the beauty of the scene, but music being so anonymous makes it hard for corporations to get behind it."

er...... yeah. Is this a bad thing?

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04/30/08 + monty

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04/30/08 + lowlifi

This article seems as outdated as the artists that are in it.

If Moby thinks he is "keepin' it real", I think he should actually meet Adrian Sherwood.

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04/30/08 + ignatius

"I quickly realized that I had more fun DJing records for 75 people at Nublu than going on tour and performing for 10,000 people a night," explains Moby. "I can imagine if I have children at some point, they're gonna say, 'Okay, college is $200,000 for four years and you need to pay for it.' And I'll say, 'Maybe I could� if I'd toured more instead of DJing at Nublu.' From a financial perspective, I'm an idiot."

uh.. huh. because you can't hack paying for college w/the shedload of cash you cleared from the couple million albums you sold.

whatever.. i'm sure in a year or two he'll make a new album and feel that he needs to "reconnect" w/his audience and he'll go on tour in big venues or something.

but, more to the point.. who cares? this is funny too.

"To restore some semblance of order to his life, Moby did the unthinkable. He returned to his late-�80s roots by DJing at small New York City clubs such the postage-stamp-sized Alphabet City haunt known as Nublu."

UNTHINKABLE!!!!! like every artist in the world doesn't sometimes go play small venues for the intimacy w/the audience.

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04/30/08 + tantan

I have Moby anger

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04/30/08 + breakscience

my post is too short...lol moby

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04/30/08 + Roshi

oh c'mon, he's a vegan

that means he's automatically right

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04/30/08 + subset

My gf is vegan, and she's OFTEN WRONG. hahahahaa ...don't tell her I said that.

I also have inexplicable Moby rage. I don't know that much about him, but his music makes me angry and so do pictures of him.

04/30/08 + license

lol moby

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04/30/08 + delete

"For goodness sake, MTV didn't matter to us. In fact, the problems came when they started to play our music."

Awwwwww, poor famous EM guys...

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04/30/08 + Roshi

tantan said: "I have Moby anger"

Mob rage is quite common in this day and age

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04/30/08 + p

why all the hate? these guys made it possible for me to buy a sampler in alabama. before that guitar center actually was a guitar center.

also, the article seems to suggest someone was surprised that electronic music would blow up after grunge. Disco followed the last of the hippies. people get sick of granola and start wondering if plastic tastes okay.

I actually got a bit nostalgic for the nineties, people just called everything techno and there was a feeling of "we're all in this together" now there's just too damned many genres.

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04/30/08 + p

nevermind that last sentence. I'm not all "kids today" yet.

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04/30/08 + license

I don't hate Prodigy. my life (or, at least, my free time) would be a lot different without them.

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04/30/08 + utofbu

i like to eat pie and make lego robots

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