Remember way back at the beginning of the nineties reading some UK jock, Paul 'Trouble' Anderson's editorial on what was one of the very first issues of Touch at the time. He was then saying : house is we're you live and garage is where you park your car and despite all the things that have occured inbetween (I mean musically speaking), can't help myself thinking this to be nothing but the true evidence for a vast majority of people around. No doubt how a simple look around is up to make us realize that tons of things went wrong. This, by the times we live, being enough to make us think about what would have to be changed for a better acceptance if not simply an acceptance by a wider crowd. But don't get us wrong, we're not to say that this is this people or that other's fault. We've all individually speaking and at various degrees created the current situation…

What's the image of house and, to a wider extend, the one of the so called electronic music ? Absolute nuts generally speaking, as compared to other genres, if not negative to a lot of people outside the community. Non music for the most conservative of them, crap or very much related to drugs and quick sex for some others to a point that a vaste amount of them don't wanna hear a word about this. And when they do, they're quite often tempted to spread it negatively. I know that you know and you know that I know how we don't have anything to do with this, but the truth is that what we more than everyone else suffer from this reality. This being amplified by the current economical situation making us more fragile individually speaking. Can we stand this any longer ? The answer is definitely NO, having a deep thought to all of those of us who've left over the last months. The reaction in such a situation would be to focus on its own interests, but it tends up being nothing but a short term view seing our potential allied disappearing from the surface of earth year after year.

The one of us who decides to give up buying records for free downloads is as responsible of our progressive death as the one trying to keep the whole for its sole purpose or the one who doesn't provide the info where it has to be and vice versa. We gotta be even more selective in the choice of the people we're working with in these times of crisis, this enabling us to invest more on what we believe to be stricly essential. Give our priority to the ones who, by their commitment, show us their consistancy and motivations rather than searching for some heads who may not give a sh.. on what we're doing at the end of the day.

If the solution is to be found in the creation of a parallel system, then let's do it and work as a (true) community and provide all its members with the opportunity to be heard about on the widest scale. This being first and foremost possible after having taken the census of its most living forces, then give the appropriate infos to each of them at the most appropriate time and by the most appropriate ways… In other words, let's benefit from each other's strength to build a system (our one) capable of rivalizing with the existing one(s) that do/doesn't allows to have a bigger exposure of our respective activities.

Endly speaking, for what concerns us here at IDMW.com, a lot of you would ask me to have some proper platform dedicated to the things that we love (in English as opposed to Coda Magazine where I've been writing for an eternity) and some potential space of (free) expression to reach an international audience. Well, time tells you that we've answered your expectations while launching our site. Keep in mind that it's going to be what you're going to make of it for a big part. MFSB