By the time you’ll be readin’ this most of the Miami attendees will have reached their destination, firmly decided, whoever they are, – artists, DJ’s, label managers & record companies execs or simply fans – to take the very best out of it, doin’ parties all day long for nearly a week… But what about the rest once the whole thing is over???
Although being the ultimate place to take some good time at this period of the year, let’s not forget Miami’s initial goal supposed to be to the music makers what those bi yearly exhbitions are to the fashion designers ; in other words, THE sparkle for a whole bunch of new creations to be exposed to the world’s attention during the months to come… And this is exactly where it has started to hurt a bit more for quite some time from a year to another, becoming progressively a DJ to DJ thang as opposed to open itself to the said outside world. As a result, nothing really decent in regards to the investment as far as media coverage is concerned, apart from the usual instant reports which is quite ironical from people who, for most of’em, do not have proper pics of’em available on Internet, and a scene about which the least to say is that its image remains quite diluted despite 20 years of activity. C’mon then, would anyone of use imagine seing Karl Lagerfeld and Jean-Paul Gaultier exchanging their latest creations with not even an attention to the journalists and the photographs??? Non sense, bullsh** and whatever of the likes… Then what is to have the latest white label heavily played in Miami when almost no info is given in the meantime to those supposed to display it on a much bigger audience at the end of the day??? I know, that’s the same ol’sh** I’ve already expressed on those pages a couple of years ago, but nothing has really changed since, although things tend to prove how there’s a real need of infos expressed on a daily basis by a whole bunch of peeps around the globe, which, as a kind reminder, are the main purveyors of incomes for the scene…
To the latest on its whole, I’d like to humbly remind this famous sentence taken from the so called Fables of French poet La Fontaine which I’ll try to translate in the most appropriate way : ‘Havin’ sung all summer long, cicada found itself quite unprepared facing the North wind…
Nuff said, it’s time to party now! As for the rest, that same time will tell... MFSB
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