Funnily enough I was listening to the first couple of Fog LPs yesterday and remembering the level of outrage about Ninja Tune signing someone so different to the mainstream of their output (and equally around the same time Warp signing Maximo Park and other non-electronic things), which really made me reflect on how most of the still extant big indies really grew out of pretty well-defined musical sounds and scenes, before in the mid 00s becoming a lot more eclectic. Maybe culture is now just too distributed around the world to allow that kind of musical petri-dish to flourish
Funnily enough I was listening to the first couple of Fog LPs yesterday and remembering the level of outrage about Ninja Tune signing someone so different to the mainstream of their output (and equally around the same time Warp signing Maximo Park and other non-electronic things), which really made me reflect on how most of the still extant big indies really grew out of pretty well-defined musical sounds and scenes, before in the mid 00s becoming a lot more eclectic. Maybe culture is now just too distributed around the world to allow that kind of musical petri-dish to flourish
Most definitely Neil. That's something I wrote about here: https://open.substack.com/pub/networknotesnewsletter/p/we-need-subcultures-and-scenes-back?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=qg89 In short: we need local scenes back.
Thanks for the shout out! Your description of the new newsletter may be clearer than how Iāve been describing it myself. š¤
Not at all sir - thank you! And happy to have helped if that description proves useful! š