I think it is time to have a nice monologue for a long spun thought about several electronic music “hits” and ongoing club culture. You remember the hard techno loops around the year 2k and the two following (in main)? Good stuff. But then, they started to cover old tracks like stuff from the eighties and even good tracks from the nineties. I´m not speaking of “remixed” but of “stolen” and the huge difference is that the evil guys claim to have a good track – in many cases it works for the masses, why I better would not write too hard about it – but these tracks rely on samples that were formed in other context, and now are taken without even mentioning the situation and the former artist.

Now, when I see (or better hear) what they are doing with that designed techno that works for now, I can bet it´s only a matter of time when that music is going to be trashed and superseded by some new music that works for two years and then will be the medium for bootlegs in general and so on. In my ears, the coming up and the success of bootlegs indicates the ending of an electronic music style.

Bootlegs mean loss of innovation quality what not means that these tracks are produced worse – far from it! And please, don´t get me wrong. I am not against “sampling” at all. The technique of sampling produced so much of flavours of the music we currently are experiencing. But must one take a well known sample to put it into a main break of a techno track that, without that sample would just drown in the soulless mass of low quality techno music? I´d be blowed if did do so.

Checking my vinyl and mp3 music collection, there are very few appearances of such stolen music – even if I liked the tracks on a party, my choice would always fall on true spirit music that works in mind without relating to former audible memories, soundtracks or hooked hits from former music eras. If those producers use the main body of another track, they´d just name it a remix or a re-interpretation and label the artist they rely on.

Now I sound like I was againt new forms of audible art at all, yeah yeah… well I ain´t. I do stuff myself – but those tracks are remixes that never are released to public. The tracks of mine you find on the blog are under a creative commons license that allow you to play around with the tracks as you like as long as you name me as artist, don´t use it for commercial purpose and share it with the same setting. This is very similar to the procedures of the idea of open source.

Music without any bootlegs but a remix could be found under psyspy.

Feelin´ better now.