IT'S JUST ME, MYSELF (DESTRUCTION) & I…

jjl · Site Admin Joined: Jan 07, 2004 Posts: 130

Hmm, I know you're gonna feel much related to the title of this topic – nearly the same as the famous one that we've posted during the last WMC' in Miami which, by the way, stands as one of the most read this year here on IDMW.Com - if not having the impression that I repeat myself. But isn't that what to be expected, when seing that despite regular remarks, the situation we tend to criticize outside the community tends to be reproduced inside ?

One house, one nation ! "Stronger Together"… "Fight The Power"… "Promised Land"… "Get Up Stand Up"… And the list goes on of those noble songs or mottos with a universal meaning that we've never managed to materialise on our day to day lives. Easy said, more rarely put into applications as each of us was necessarily the exception to the rule… C'mon (between you and I), how dare could we trully believe in this when having a look at ourselves on the mirror ? Let's stop playing this useless game, as it's definitely not the way life goes ; at least, properly !

I fully know how self-protected we gotta manage to be in order to face (if not to survive in) the situation we're living nowadays, but I'm not too sure about the way we behave in such a case, living for ourselves but mostly by ourselves at the end of the day.

A vaste majority of people is there with the idea of taking of taking credits from the community and there's nothing to complain about this. But we all have to know that such a situation can't be a one way thing. In other words, taking credits means that we also have to pay our tribute to those who contribute to make each of us a living. Receiving but also giving in the mean time. And when I say giving, I deeply mean it. Then what do we mostly have as a response ? Egos developped to an extend which has probably never been reached before instead of this basic notion of you + me being the sole condition for giving… life ! Course, we may hear many words here and there but what about the acts ? The commitment ?

Internet full of self proclaimed undeground DJ's having free downloads instead of buying their necessary amount of vinyls at the record store next door whose owner, ironically, will be asked to contribute to the promo of their gigs while welcoming their flyers. DJ Playlists looking more and more like catalogues of auto-productions with no availability at the current time of print. People spoiled to death to show their big headz behind the decks, then, all of a sudden, turning them when fronted to clubbers coming to them with the sole purpose of showing them simple signs of love ! And I'm not even talking about this current trend of having their names featuring Jocelyn Brown, Robert Owens or whoever on their record sleeves (when we're lucky enuff to have one), as if they were the only ones who've done the music !!! Hmm, the question is : how long this will last ?

Once again, almost everyone is complaining about the current situation, but once again what do WE do apart from exploiting the same schemas ??? Having those same attitudes which have been for much in the way things are (or I'd rather say aren't) happening nowadays. What do we do when invited to gather at places such as Miami for instance ? Nuttin' apart from partying and sun tanning all week long, when solutions need to be found for a better exposure of the scene. This isn't the fault of this or that segment of the scene ; this is the fault of the whole community ! Jocks, promoters, journos, radio broadcasters and the kitchen sink… And we ain't got no excuse in this world of hi-tech communication tools. The main question remaining : Is this that we want to communicate ? If not : Do we solely know how to communicate ? MFSB