Comments on: Please

By: Donncha

Donncha — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:22:14 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Ronan, an excellent article - approaching a manifesto for optimal appreciation of dance music in my opinion.

By: Char

Char — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:45:56 +0000

“Reviewers meanwhile are too readily using this gigantic crutch of “hype” to lean on. They’re working based on other peoples’ gut reactions over a few months and carefully aligning themselves. But they should be going with their own gut.”

I agree everything you’re saying about reviews. I work in music PR and find that some reviewers at major mags and websites (naming no names) don’t seem to even open emails if there isn’t an of the moment, ‘hyped’ name slapped in the subject line. Whatever happened to it being about the music? Finding new stuff? Just writing about what you might like if you bother to open the mail? Rather than just namedropping what you know to be ‘in’ right now. It is beyond me.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:20:48 +0000

yeah or stop “being a part of the internet”, basically.

you can kind of understand your standard broadsheet writer complaining about internet hype, tho really he should be just laughing that anyone is willing to pay him for an opinion!

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:18:39 +0000

This is a great post. If a reviewer acts like he’s some sort of crusader against misplaced hype, he is both being incredibly naive AND acting like he is more enlightened and educated than anyone who exists on the internet or in word-of-mouth conversations about bands.

Weirdly coincidental that I come on to this blog for the first time and find a great post about something I have been thinking about for a couple of days.

Let the anti-hype reviewer stop Googling, if he’s so anxious to discard what blogs say.

By: Will Lynch

Will Lynch — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:24:16 +0000

I agree with pretty much everything Ronan said, especially about the dubiousness of Trompeta’s hype– even if discussion of the track became redundant within the echo chamber of techno blogs (which I personally don’t think it did), I doubt it was ever a belabored conversation point in the house/techno scene of the physical realm.

That being said, I think that talk of Trompeta’s hype is becoming so persistent that we have acheived meta-hype; the hype about the hype about Trompeta. When is this shit gonna end?

By: todd

todd — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:12:56 +0000

yeah this post is too hyped

By: dbzz

dbzz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:08:07 +0000

The moral of the story is the internet sux and should be banned and dismantled.

By: Joe H

Joe H — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:15:44 +0000

…& those mentioned I used to get imported from Germany by my local HMV going of Mixmags review only.

By: Joe H

Joe H — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:11:06 +0000

Ah… I forgot to mention I include streams to every post, I guess if I didn’t it would be a different story completely

I have never bought music purely on the strength of something I’ve read, I always preview it first.

I have a few times, when I had no internet access I used to count on Mixmag as my only source. I bought Ellen Allien - Thrills, Maetrik - Casi Profundo, Luciano - Scifi & a few more.

I preview everything now though as its so easy with the internet.

By: Stef

Stef — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:55:50 +0000

‘I suppose for our community (on the blogs websites) were all pretty up to speed on electronic music goings on and reviewing music otherwise we wouldn’t be doing it. However a lot of readers really appreciate the single reviews I’ve had some good feed back from people who go out and buy something that I have reviewed and I know other sites thats in the same boat.’

I presume the people read your review then listened to the track for themselves before buying it? I think the main thing keep in mind is not to overestimate the importance of blogging on the scene; the majority of people I go out clubbing with spend nowhere near as much time on the internet as me and find out about new music from their peers rather than from online. I also agree with whoever it was that said a review of a track is pretty much a pointer, the main thing I’ll take from it is the name of the tune which I’ll then listen to to see if I like it. I have never bought music purely on the strength of something I’ve read, I always preview it first.