Re: Re: a new "new music" music site

John Nowak wrote:

> It is a potential problem. On one hand, its nice to have a site that 
> you can go to and know that everything you download will at least be 
> interesting, although you may not be in love with it. Of course 
> passing judgment on someone else's work in such as black and white 
> manner can be difficult, lead to hurt feelings, or whatever. The 
> problem with letting in everyone is, as I implied above, you get a lot 
> of nonsense too.

I'm sorry, but what I'm seeing here is a site full of "stuff that
John Nowak thinks is cool." I've got no particular reason to
trust your aesthetic judgment, and this particular answer doesn't
exactly help with that. A lot of people spent a whole lot of time
and blood and sweat and tears trying to forge a different way to
assemble and disseminate music that didn't mistake the novel for
the new, and to imagine a world in which there would BE no
"next/big/thing." A little more search time and a little more
server space is a small price to pay for a mere changing of the
guard - whether it's you or anybody and four friends. Or
me, for that matter.

Why not avoid the storage issue entirely and post links to
work uploaded by the artists themselves? All you put up
is link space. You provide the individual persons themselves
the opportunity to be contacted and dealt with as persons
rather than people who've run some gauntlet, and so on.

Come to think of it, you could probably hack a cgi script or
some variation thereof that would allow the artists themselves
to list the works so that you don't have to do the work.

Of course, this privileges no one's bias set; I appear to have
a lot more faith in the part of people to decide for themselves
what they value. Bias is impossible to avoid. In situations where
there is some considerable financial risk involved with pressed
discs, etc. (cf http://www.fallt.com ?), it's right up front. Why
go for that if it isn't necessary? I don't doubt your earnestness,
but I'm not sure I want you (or anyone, really) making my
decisions for me. I'm sure that you'd probably feel the same
way, were the circumstances reversed (if you were forced to
listen to what I program on my radio show, for example).

gregory

P.S. Are we only talking *American* "new" also?
I have it on good authority that "lovely" is the new
"edgy" in Japan these days....  :-)

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