(DOCTORIN’ THE HOUSE) FOLLOW THE GUIDE…
Prescriptor: The one who establishes official rules, laws, or directions.
From the Latin verb praescribere : prae-, pre- + scribere
Who/what would each of us ever be without references? Without a single doubt, almost nuts as experience is the fuel of our evolution both as individuals and societies. This meaning the necessary existence of elder people to transmit their knowledge from a generation to each other as there’s no possible conception of future without past itself leading to present time…
The Africans, speakin’ of which God knows how they are highly wise tend to say that should a grandma disappear and it’s like a library comin’ to flames. It is to say how they have a huge consideration of those reputedly in charge of their common heritage. The latest getting it themselves from elders and the list goes on endly til the beginning of humanity… And it mosdef appears there’s no exception whatever we may think of or whoever we are, Europeans, Asians, Americans or whatsoever, regardless the differences of our respective cultures…
I guess, to a big majority of us, the first people comin’ to mind when speakin’ of a prescriptor would then be the one known as the doctor in medicine. A man who, comin’ to examine us, will deliver a prescription supposedly to relieve our diseases on the basis of a diagnostic itself derived from the accumulation of knowledge. But a prescriptor is also to a wider extend the one we refer to on the basis of the relation he’s managed to establish – most likely his reputedly credibility – with the subject of our respective interests along the years. This said, and as the semantic of its name suggests, his position is firmly related to the idea of upfront expression. Prae meaning ante (for anterior), then scribere, writing…
Judging by the current state of the house scene and its crucial lack of exposure, no need to say how the existence of prescriptors is more than ever capital. And, once again, I would like to address those lines to the handful of those – most likely label managers and producers – who, despite being offered support and visibility, not only fail to transmit the informations, but on most cases do not even respond to mails, phone calls or whatever. And, as a result, I hardy can’t help myself thinking how this kind of attitude can be self-destructive as most likely based on a certain ignorance, not to say a disinterest of who’s doin’ what if ever since when on our whole scene.
Open our eyes, said Marshall Jefferson presenting a memorable project known as The Truth on the now defunct Big Beat label. It was some 20 years ago… MFSB
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