Whatever might be said, and even though disagreeing with a majority of people seing in certain folks their heroes of the day, history, despite repeating itself under the form of regular cycles, ain’t never be the same. And whenever one tends to come back to ancient times as it’s often the case nowadays, this trully shows a lack of inspiration and – once again – an obvious problem as far as the sense of values is concerned…
Almost not a single day without a sound coming to our ears to bring us back to a precise moment of our existence. Although I fairly well understand the aim of the producers to come up with something the crowd may feel connected to, I simply can’t help saying NO to all this stuff currently around made by people trying to provide us with a story far better narrated something like 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 years ago, seing the way the aformentioned are treated on top of it (like virtual kings !), despite cut’n’pasting works which aren’t theirs ! As if a scribe X or Y was to receive an Award for rewriting on his own way books of authors such as Shakespeare, Molière or Dante. Or as if an anonymous copier was to be offered an exhibition at some place like Le Louvre for revamping paints of people like Van Gogh, Da Vinci or Salvador Dali !!! Could you believe this ? Let me humbly have doubts about it ! And if I’m sufficiently open minded to understand how art can be reappropriated, I’m expecting it to be so by shining spirits such as Warhol – and not by those too numerous w**kerz who without their machines or the help of some star from the past trying to resurface, would be either hairdressers, employed by some brewers or would work in the building industry. Alright then, you might tell me how such a work (I mean the latest) could be a good experience as far as house (music) is concerned. This said, the market keeps on being what it is following the footsteps of the Spaghetti House and the most memorable dispute which has occured between Italian outfit BlackBox and US diva Loletta Holloway (remember ‘Ride On Time’) the impersonations of Milli Vanilli and all this rubbish known as eurodance which made many French clubs the way they are today. Not to mention all those bootlegs, more or less licit reedits, remixes and cover versions currently around.
Although we’ve completely admitted the process of tracing as far as the origin of the food is concerned in the EEC after the co called mad cow affair, although the wine industry has protected itself from many frauds with the A.O.C. system, and despite having the intellectual property more and more under control having in mind the creation of quality labels for the consummers, the multi media production – should it be the cinema as well as the music – is left under the control of more or less good soup makers left with no one saying anything about it. And even more then with the complicity of a whole organized system living on the sole basis of immediate returns on investements.
Thjis said, and although it always take a certain time to the crowd to react, we’d better stop considering it as sheeps. Do we really offense Bob Sinclar wondering which of Cerrone’s original works and the revamps which have recently been made are the best ? And what about Richie Rich’s classic ‘Salsa House’ or Robin S’s’Show Me Love’ and their current reworks or extrapolations by Soul Purpose on Defected and Sillicone Soul on Soma ???
History, as usual, will judge within a 10 years period time, even though we may guess a big majority of you coming to this site have already your own opinion about it. But if history tends to repeat itself, let’s never forget that it can’t be lived twice, simply because nothing stays the same…
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