RUMOUR: Amato have gone bust

[AcidTrash]

What is more usefull than creative and imaginative, abstract expression of the human spirit?
Art and musical expression separates us from the animals, and as it can be selfless and without the need for profit, yet can give universal pleasure to people regardless of language barriers.
Music brings people together, breaking social, econimic, racial and spiritual barriers, and it is why it is so controlled, and why dance music, which became so powerful, has been repressed.

What are you suggesting is more useful? politics?

Actually your reply does deserve a better answer.

Dance music has not been repressed because of any of the things you mention. It has been repressed because A) it's damn antisocial to play it all night in a built up area, B) whenever there are free parties there's always a mess someone else has to pay for the clean up of, C) I never met a raver who wasnt happy to climb into a car and drive it after half a dozen pills. D) it's part of the drug culture which isn't taxable. Governments dont like things they cant tax. and E) it creates a generation of young people who drop out of the system. You may see the latter as a good thing. I do not. The brightest and best of a generation pricking about with cubase? Examine any youth movement of any other decade and they actually archived something. Ravers just learned how to shake off personal responsibility and duty of care to themselves.

In fact, why does the rave scene needs to be repressed when it does such a good job of repressing its people without help. It would only need to actively repress the scene if it were in any way a threat to its authority. It is not.

What is more useful? Perhaps asking why those barriers you speak of exist and what can be done to prevent the going up in the first place.

Diverting all this energy into a self referential bubble of toy obsessed craven egotists and posers and debating endlessly which toys will last the test of time is actually quite sad. Especially given that these threads haven't actually changed in all the years I've been reading them.

In many ways I'm pleased the techno scene I knew is dying. The only people it served was DJ's who were prepared to throw thousands of their own money at failed enterprises for their own sense of self worth (masquerading as love of the scene LOL), criminal drug dealers, and the many cynical parasitic businesses that have grown up around yet another consumer market.
Everyone else was just cattle (of which I became a part for a time).

All the while the victims watch their teeth grind to dust and their ability to play an active role in something more than their cloying, claustrophobic cliques, disappear down the sink.

Of the many people I knew from that scene, most of them are still there, not having moved on or grown up or even achieved anything of note. Most of them are state dependants or racked with consumer debt and for all their claims of being free they are more slaves to the system than I, especially given the system really would prefer you self medicating and out of the way.

So far as I can see the scene is one massive drop-out factory full of hypocrites, fantasists, sycophants and sheep.

As to my original comment, I think were all this intelligence applied to real problems rather than pricking about with cubase
there wouldn't be so much of a need to go out on a weekend and frazzle your brain on whatever the hippy in the toilets is punting.