Quote Originally Posted by grain
Quote Originally Posted by Alan Oldham
a) if an artist actually got a video on such a channel, boards like this would be the main ones crying "ego" and "sellout"
... fair point Alan, but as far as the lack of good looking people goes, I was thinking more like videos that were as creative and artistic as the music (think video artists like Chris Cunningham and Alex Rutterford), not videos like your typical ego-manic R&B video...
Obviously it would be up to the artists involved to ensure creative content but more importantly up to the station managers to keep a check on quality control...

And as far as there being no 'back-story'? - Surely you're not saying the techno community has nothing interesting to say, that interviews with innovators in the field would be necessarily boring?
Surely you don't think that there aren't talented documentary directors, editors, animators and all other sorts of creative individuals who are passionate about techno and who would only love to get thier teeth into such a project?

Mabye I'm being too optimistic and completely unrealistic but...

Maybe what I'm thinking of would maybe be more realistic as an internet website, but I like the idea of a broadcasting channel with a weekly programme and the other advantages that go with the format (most people have a comfortable set up for watching tv, good sound, seating etc..)

.. then I see your based in the States (where I've never been) and I know you've got so many channels of crap over there you're probably completely turned off the idea of tv...

I just havn't given up on the idea just yet
All the points you bring up are quite valid, however, as far as the money people go (aka gatekeepers), there's no story there really. To them, it's "electronica" and electronica is the '90s. When Melody Maker said dance music was dead, that was it. To them, 50 Cent got shot nine times, Babyshambles broke from The Libertines and is on crack, there's a story.

I lived thru the '90s and people didn't even like when a techno artist had a video, he was an egomaniac, it was selling out. Plus it implied he was making money enough to HAVE a video in the first place.

But then again I was dealing mostly with Americans at the time, who hate on any and everything.

Excuse my weary cynicism, carry on and don't mind me

Oh and I'm living in Berlin now, a nice change