Okay, what I think is that, the over-commercialization of music has consistently driven good art away. So the bullshit that plays on MTV is commercial music, but whoever that's not a complete jerk or a moron listens to that crap? It's got no soul, no meaning, no nothing.
The stuff on beatport is amazingly commercial and yet at the same time hollow to the same extent.
I suppose you want me to talk about industrial labels and industrial artists. That's easy. Good example is Meat Beat Manifesto, one artist that I was so influenced by, and he went into a wider and colorful, new kind of music, does anyone take a hint? (Perhaps except some of the more gifted like Cervello Elettronico?) No! We have to invent our own cliches, and stick to them, turn the whole industrial scene into some kind of dumbed down "mechanical" version of the same MTV pop culture that's so outright disgusting.
I don't know, I must be getting old :P The thing is, this scene seems to thrive upon redundancy and triviality, which are not qualities that are part of industrial. The new stuff is way too predictable, way too pop. That's the problem. Originality has become rare and even UNDESIRABLE, and I do believe my point that the casual "amateur" band has a lot more space for originality.
In the wider spectrum, this seems to be happening to all the genres. I see this as the commerce of music reducing art to excrete, and it happens because of the completely false predictions of capitalism.
These restraints will not always be present. There will be more opportunity for original art to be commissioned and to be made, and not made into a banal product. There will be more opportunity for the artists to make a living. And then the floodgates will open. I kinda think we must be like the authors discussing how this new devilish printing apparatus will affect their work. Plenty, it had turned out.
