THE DOSE - Issue 1 - Tokyo by Wide View Ltd

Author:Wide View Ltd.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cyberpunk, ezine, magazine, online, city, technology, alternative, music, anarchivism

theMaze: From the 70's on, there's always been a "next big thing" in electronic music and we think someone will come, in a near future, that will step ahead from the masses... maybe not today. The multiplication of genres is a direct consequence of the electro boom you mentioned. 15-20 years ago, only a few people were really into electronics... nowadays, you can see it by yourself. But we are sure this doesn't necessarily slows the electro evolution!

What is the best channel for marketing Blank nowadays? Official label marketing, community sites, sneaky mp3 snippets sent out to p2p networks, etc?

theMaze: Another difficult question. In the current, hard situation, anything will do, really. I must say that community sites as Myspace or Vampirefreaks have been and are an enormous promoting channel, because it's really amazing how the word can spread to different people all over the world in virtually no time, and it's also a way to get in touch with other artists, promoters or whatever you may be in need of. So, it's wonderful how you can be listened by people, how you can establish contacts and connections, talk to everyone, which is surely fine. Not sure all this helps increasing that much your CD sales, which is always the big survival problem for small bands and labels. But all of these channels, if combined well and with some work, can help a band being noticed and

In terms of production, albums are dead, songs are the basic units of music now. Please comment.

theMaze: If you mean "concept" albums, I can agree with you: the times of albums like "Elizium" are gone. Surely MP3s and digital music have helped this process; and also, the constant need for "fast-paced" songs suitable for the dancefloor, rather than for home-listening. But I think there are still "proper albums" out there... In our case, we wanted to shift the concept from content to form, we wanted our first album "Artificial breathing" to be straightforward and fast, and we did it. We could say that form is the core of that album. And we also have nice ideas for concept albums that we'd like to develope one day. We'll see...:)

..and pick one classical composition of one classical composer you'd gladly rework.

theMaze: Well, if I got the question, anything by Vivaldi or Monteverdi could work, but I think I'll never try to destroy their -almost- perfect

You embark on a galactic voyage with one CD, one book and one favourite visual art product - what would those be?

theMaze: CD: Unknown Pleasures" by Joy

Division or "Darklands" by The Jesus and Mary

Chain.

Book: "II deserto dei Tartari" by Dino Buzzati or

"Watchmen" by Alan Moore

Visual Art Product: "Composition VII" by Vasiliy

Kandinsky or "Lavender Mist" by Jackson Pollock

Well, can I bring my iPod as well? ;)

What do you guys do when you're not busy with Blank, what do you spend your time with, what jobs do you have and how do you kill your stress with?

theMaze: derMate is a mechanical engineer and I work as a programmer for my Region's Environmental Agency.

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