I dunno, I mean you've got to remember that the world doesn't solely consist of massively complicit industry types and the kind of people who post on dissensus.
The vast majority of people exist somewhere in the middle, and they probably all love this sort of stuff
that's odd as the music's chief sin is to be so incredibly middle of the road.
Maybe it's the difference between
a) self-defining dance music 'aesthetes' who are for whatever reason willing enough to follow scoobs and take that one last incremental step into the wilderness of bland bollocks...
can't argue with you really...though it does seem like an unnecessary step to go from 'music is insufficiently emancipatory' to 'music is just another product'. I mean, surely a lot of what's been going on in the last decade (digitisation/piracy) is to do with the square peg round hole situation...
mistersloane have you thought about making a video to be shown to quiet unhappy kids in primary schools?
it could be called 'you're not a-sloane'
and have motivational messages like
'your backpack isn't a girl's backpack, they're just jealous!'
and
'there's nothing 'gay' about being the...
It should be said for clarity's sake that it wasnt Kiran (who runs the label) who did the mix, that was Raime, a duo who release on the label and are closely associated with it but don't have a hand in running it as far as I can tell :)
Totally with you on this. Watched a John Maus interview today where he said something along the lines of 'all music is political, but overtly political music just fucking sucks.' Drawing on my (very limited) experience it seems like the way in which engagement with music bleeds into political...
I like this, it's not club music by any stretch but I think it's great. So much detail and the structure is really organic in a way you don't hear much.
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