Is house music to endly find a new turn and, by extension, talent and quality to end up being recognised as opposed to what we currently get delivered to our doors on an every day basis ? The progressive arrival of a brand new system and its subsequent new rules could well be the answer to this crucial question, unless it's our whole civilization coming to an end. This said, an end is always synonoymous with a new beginning. So let's keep our fingers crossed…  

For a vast majority of people, house music is nothing but those anonymous sort of DJ tools destined to be assembled with following ones of the likes at the peak time on some dancefloor here and there. In such conditions, there's no wonder why so many people do not give a sh** to this, when house music has so much more on offer which ironically remains unknown due to the lack of radio airplay and radio support. Not to mention the general lack of places where you might have a listen to it apart from a very few exceptions… As if no radio programmer/A&R/promoter had the taste for it or shall I rather say as if they were much more caring about the money they can do out of their activities. This said, what would be the trends phenomenons without their usual investments ???

On the other hand, many people doing good music have been around for ages without the support of the finances and when I talk about ages, I mean sometimes one or even two decades and they're still around like against all ods. Isn't that strange ? And their records would even keep on being available on bids as time goes. Isn't that somehow funny when so many of those people who've been on the current charts are today totally forgotten ? How many are those of them you remember as opposed to people like Larry Heard, Steve 'Silk' Hurley, Lil'Louis, Ten City and the likes whose works are considered as seminal classics ???

House music is much more of a factual trendy thing, it's a state of mind as well as the evolution to what the so called danceable R&B was at the end of the… 70's !

I recently came to meet quite a lot of die hard funk fans on various peer to peer server forums and you know what ? They have artists on their files, like George Benson, Jocelyn Brown, Jennifer Holiday, D'Bora, Carolyn Harding… James Ingram who've come to do house music at some time, although they don't wanna hear about it for the simple reasons we stated earlier ! Quite weird indeed, isn't it ? And I'm not even talking about those countless cover versions of R&B standards or house remixes of current R&B tunes which we regularly get provided with from a year to another… So what is wrong with house music or should I say what happens to be so right with it that so many investors do not seem to care about it ? Could it be that it's easier for them to work with transient people as opposed to real talents whose definition is to have character ? This is all the difference between mainstream and underground litteraly tearing the genre into 2 main categories while having people loving or hating it from a side to another.

Hopefully, such a situation can't last for ever as the proper of any cycle is to come to an end one day or another prior being replaced by the following one and it pretty much looks like the newest is about to come if not already around, as notified by Louie Vega. The main question being how, meanwhile the answers suggest us thinking and, as a result, acting differently, as the main probability for it to happen being via the new system which is currently under construction. In other words : Internet ! Let's do it… MFSB