Electronic Music 411 - Faking It - The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

"First you rebel against you're parents and get into punk, metal or techno. Then you rebel against counter-culture and get into "real" music. So you can boldy say .. I listen to everything."

Then there's the anti-anti-anti people... like us. Somewhere, some wiser people, the anti-anti-anti-anti people are watching... towering over us all :-O
And so on, and so forth..:-)

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edited: May 16 2007 + Roshi

World music pisses me off when it's recorded by some has-been rockstar who field records poor musicians from a small village and then lay their own trite ideas on top of it so idiots can buy their album at banana republic.

But I love the homegrown collections of music from other countries...stuff I'd never hear otheriwse...Ethiopiques 13 is really really blowing my mind right now. Funk from the motherland mixed with microtonal singing - ethiopian bands from the 60s...so damn good.

And "authentic" blues...bleagh.

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05/16/07 + astroid

lets have less gatekeepers and more afficionados.

gatekeepers always make me feel dirty and uncool-oh you like that, you must be fucking ignorant or middle class. afficionados can tell you everything about something, why they love it, why it's different, some of the history. i love that.

then i can make up my own dumb mind whether i like something or not.

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