Um... newsflash: There has ALWAYS been a ton of imitation in all music, not just electronic music. Even in Detroit back in the day. Here's how it has worked with human beings since the beginning of time: you always have a sea of people doing somewhat similar stuff, punctuated by a few who then perio...

hmmm.....interesting thread....

*strokes chin*

ummm... this might be why people like Agnes and Martinez have backed off the cracked out bleepy minimal thing and gone back to producing stuff closer to the old house roots.

"If you play minimal all night or electro, it's going to get really boring."

Steve Bug

maybe... I just wonder, are these guys really going to listen to the mixes? What if they get like 400 hours of Hi-NRG dance

sh!t, if I had 800 hours of good tunes, I'd drive from here to Siberia... I love a good road trip with a solid set of music.

Who knows it Michael Jackson was a pedophile or not... The jury couldn't convict him, and that mother of the family who accused him has a history of some shady behavior (look up what she accused some security guards of at J.C. Penney store after she was caught there for shoplifting). So I don't know...

...and here I was assuming that crappy music made its way into charts because too many people have crappy taste in music?...

the only good thing I see out of this, is that she stood up for herself and didn't settle outside of court, and now those big record companies are looking like pretty big a-holes... Before this outcome, I actually would have thought that it would be smarter for her to settle outside of court than t...