Sherburne's manifesto
blockup wrote:pheek wrote:You can't never wish more than enough for people to have fun and be happy. That's probably the core of my own manifesto.blockup wrote:I'm sure that doesn't need to be said.drokkr.minimal wrote:one thing that nobody seemed to mention...
HAVE FUN
Manifesto's are nothing more (or less) than a code of honour. I can somehow believe that as an artist, you somehow need to go back to your roots or stick things in which you believe in. I like to think there's a bit of that in Phil's text.
One thing that strikes me, so many people HATE Myspace promo/demo submissions. I wonder why its still happening.
Probably because they get so many.
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patrick bateman
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I want to be able to take the track to my serato and use it, therefore I don't want to listen to stuff on the myspace player.... that's also the reason why all tracks below 320 mp3's are deleted right away without giving it a listen at all...pheek wrote:You can't never wish more than enough for people to have fun and be happy. That's probably the core of my own manifesto.blockup wrote:I'm sure that doesn't need to be said.drokkr.minimal wrote:one thing that nobody seemed to mention...
HAVE FUN
Manifesto's are nothing more (or less) than a code of honour. I can somehow believe that as an artist, you somehow need to go back to your roots or stick things in which you believe in. I like to think there's a bit of that in Phil's text.
One thing that strikes me, so many people HATE Myspace promo/demo submissions. I wonder why its still happening.
Isn't that the whole point of Myspace (music)? To network.. share musicpheek wrote:blockup wrote:pheek wrote:You can't never wish more than enough for people to have fun and be happy. That's probably the core of my own manifesto.blockup wrote:I'm sure that doesn't need to be said.drokkr.minimal wrote:one thing that nobody seemed to mention...
HAVE FUN
Manifesto's are nothing more (or less) than a code of honour. I can somehow believe that as an artist, you somehow need to go back to your roots or stick things in which you believe in. I like to think there's a bit of that in Phil's text.
One thing that strikes me, so many people HATE Myspace promo/demo submissions. I wonder why its still happening.
Probably because they get so many.
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Interesting read besides the lengthy, typically Pitchfork intro.
1) fck about 98% of those rules.
2a) If you're a DJ, I don't care how you got your music or what format it's in, as long as you've got it, it's good, and it works. It helps if you paid for it.
2b) If you're a producer, I don't care what computer program or $10,000 rare vintage synth you made your song on: If it's good, it's good.
3) I'm not even a label owner and I don't have time to listen to the demos that come trickling into my inbox on Myspace. It would be nice if there was about 10 more hours in a day for me spend leisurely filtering out the odd gem amongst hundreds of digital dirt clods. (see below)
4) Analog/VST/Ableton/breakdowns/122 BPM/re-edits are not the problem so much as the producers that produce sh!t music, the DJs that broadcast it, and the people dancing to it who should know better -- but don't, because they don't have an extra 10 hours a day to leisurely scroll through music, so they rely on shity DJs that rely on even shittier producers for their music.
5) I'm tired of elitists preaching about the way it used to be done, as if it's the only way it always has to be done. No disrespect to the years of experience and knowledge that they may have on me -- just don't disrespect the years of experience that I haven't yet made, or the different brand of knowledge I've studied to make and play out music. No big deal if you don't know techno history, so long as you aren't making cliches or trash that have already run their course -- we live in now, not 25 years ago.
6) Ridiculous, outdated limits and guidelines like "don't use a computer unless..." should be replaced with "be tasteful."
1) fck about 98% of those rules.
2a) If you're a DJ, I don't care how you got your music or what format it's in, as long as you've got it, it's good, and it works. It helps if you paid for it.
2b) If you're a producer, I don't care what computer program or $10,000 rare vintage synth you made your song on: If it's good, it's good.
3) I'm not even a label owner and I don't have time to listen to the demos that come trickling into my inbox on Myspace. It would be nice if there was about 10 more hours in a day for me spend leisurely filtering out the odd gem amongst hundreds of digital dirt clods. (see below)
4) Analog/VST/Ableton/breakdowns/122 BPM/re-edits are not the problem so much as the producers that produce sh!t music, the DJs that broadcast it, and the people dancing to it who should know better -- but don't, because they don't have an extra 10 hours a day to leisurely scroll through music, so they rely on shity DJs that rely on even shittier producers for their music.
5) I'm tired of elitists preaching about the way it used to be done, as if it's the only way it always has to be done. No disrespect to the years of experience and knowledge that they may have on me -- just don't disrespect the years of experience that I haven't yet made, or the different brand of knowledge I've studied to make and play out music. No big deal if you don't know techno history, so long as you aren't making cliches or trash that have already run their course -- we live in now, not 25 years ago.
6) Ridiculous, outdated limits and guidelines like "don't use a computer unless..." should be replaced with "be tasteful."