Comments on: Yes, it’s a post about Richie Hawtin (sort of)

By: brut! records

brut! records — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:35:03 +0000

Richie who??

By: jtechnoir

jtechnoir — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:11:43 +0000

YAWN. Call me a cynic, but either way I don’t care, survey or not. As a consumer of electronic music, I’ll make my own decision when he’s finally ready to release another “good” record. In my opinion, he hasn’t done anything worthwhile since the Consumed album. So by all means take the survey and tweet about whatever tracks he may choose to debut due to the populous vote, in the meantime, I’m not holding my breath. Fuk that!

By: el choque cultural

el choque cultural — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:25:08 +0000

i’m not waiting anything from Hawtin, but i definitely agree with Andy Warhol comparision. if he loves making money, why not? i don’t care. from this prespective the whole minimal techno could be seen like pop-art. btw, on the other side mr. Wolfgang Voigt was defining a “genuinely German pop music” creating Kompakt. and he did it!

cheers

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:50:24 +0000

Most of the time you couldn’t tell – but when it comes to perpetuating Bushisms you’ve gotta draw the line!

By: kenny

kenny — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:02:25 +0000

And I don’t have a sub-editor.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:00:54 +0000

Irregardless is not a word!

By: chrisdisco

chrisdisco — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:41:05 +0000

“but also it was a springboard for me to talk about live performances in general…”

it is a really worthwhile post for this reason. i fully agree with what you say about losing a bit of the mystery. been thinking that myself for a while.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:39:16 +0000

Good post Kenny.
Art is not surveying people and giving them what they want. Art should be an expression of a person, an outpouring, a message, a desire, SOMETHING other than asking the public what they want and serving it to them in the most business-like fashion. This sort of “ask the audience” mentality is the ruination of popular culture since it is driven by ticket sales.
I find it so offensive that modern Hollywood producers would not dare release a movie without having screen-tested one or more endings with focus group audiences. Surely, writing a movie, directing it, telling the story should be the work of one creative person or group who have a vision to unfold. Whether the viewers enjoy it or not is up to them. A movie should not be a jumble of scenes to which the lowest common denominators of society have given a thumbs-up to.
In much the same way, the thought of going to a Plastikman live show with the elements decided in advance by the Hawtin faithful is ridiculous.

By: Scott Ferguson

Scott Ferguson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:58:16 +0000

All I would say is it just seems desperate. Maybe if being on top is all you’ve ever known you’d do almost anything to keep it that way…

Let us hope he just concentrates on making music and not money while he’s in the studio. I mean for God’s sake Plastikman music is going to sell.

By: clom

clom — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:59:56 +0000

Hawtin seems to be interested (for whatever reason) in the possibilities of online networks in terms of creating a relationship (of whatever nature) between artist/performer and fans. As far as I can see that’s driven by money. But so are a lot of reunion/revival tours. I just think the idea that a set list picked by fans is just one step too far, it implies the performer doesn’t have any interest in revisiting the music for any reason other than fans reaction. That doesn’t work for me, I prefer the notion of an artist presenting their own vision as they see it.

Is anyone else reminded of when you get those wedding invites that say “please RSVP with a song that will get you up dancing” (which, when you see it, you know you’re going to be bombarded with hour after hour of awful chart guff watching your Uncle Larry slavering over your missus). Or something.

Not for me thanks bucko, although i’ll be having a sniff around some of the vinyl reissues.