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[Simon of the Playa]

BOOM!

KA-BOOM!

[H.G.Crosby]

wait....lemme guess.....you're gonna tell us you saw this coming, aren't you...

[Roberto Dobbisano]

PROTECT THE CITY!

DESTROY THEM WITH FUCKING LAZERS!

[trilobyte]

I've split this from last year's Dear Sound Camps thread in politics and philosophy because the articles you're linking are general EDM industry news, and not specific to the politics and philosophy of Burning Man (any more than news about General Motors or Ford would be, since many burners use their products to get to Burning Man).

It will be interesting to see how things progress with Beatport. Retail chains (music retailers in particular) have a long history of being bought and sold, ecommerce sites aren't really much different (except they don't have hundreds of retail stores to shut down).

[Simon of the Playa]

the dude owns elvis for god's sake...it's total vertical intergration, and this man plans on consolidating the "EDM" world and now "Pop" music and all of it's "Content" under one big SFX Sillerman Umbrella.


fuck that.

fuck the big money.....fuck the red bullshit.....the barbarians have snuck past the gates, infiltrated your infrastructure and are about to destroy it from within.



mark my fucking words.

[H.G.Crosby]

god damn, you dont just bite the hand, you chew on the fingers while you're at it, don't you....

[Roberto Dobbisano]

i have heard of what the rabbis are planning, and this Golem does not like it, and can only speak ALEPH.



try and stop me, Loew...

[BeachBum]

Maybe this should be posted under the humorous conspiracy theories thread, but:

Given that this thread was quickly split off from an active thread and "buried" here, and last year Robert Sillerman promised to spend $1 billion dollars buying up EDM (alternative) festivals, is there some info that we, ones with Enquiring minds, don't know?

From the TicketNews article linked below:
"Thus, just as it was 20 years ago, the media mogul is on the hunt for regional promoters whom he can unite under one roof, once again under the SFX Entertainment moniker. The Times article reports that Sillerman claims ongoing negotiations with roughly 50 promoters and getting tentative deals with around 15 so far."

The tin-foil hat crowd among is may be asking, "Is John Frum going to be abducted from the playa by aliens this year?", as well as, "Is our High Exulted Supreme Rabbi, Larry, one of the 50 and using it as bs negotiating leverage?" Enquiring minds want to know!

At least, it makes a good tin-foil hat conspiracy theory

TicketNews, "Robert F X Sillerman sees opportunity in Electronic Dance Music": http://www.ticketnews.com/news/robert-f ... c061211332

LA Times, "In run-up to Electric Daisy, what is the future of live dance music?" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_b ... paces.html

[Eric]

Maybe this should be posted under the humorous conspiracy theories thread, but:

Given that this thread was quickly split off from an active thread and "buried" here

Buried? I read by going through "new posts" - this is the top one. Really buried. It was split because it didn't have anything to do with theme camps (at least not their event incarnation)

Luckily the club I work for uses bootleg mashups, no-one would buy us because we're legally a grey area.

[theCryptofishist]

I read from forum to forum, and have trouble thinking of "Open Discussion" as a burial ground. In some ways, this it the heart of the board, the socializing heart of the board, at least.

[MyDearFriend]

I read from forum to forum, and have trouble thinking of "Open Discussion" as a burial ground. In some ways, this it the heart of the board, the socializing smart people's heart of the board, at least.

Fixed that for ya.

[Roberto Dobbisano]

Fuck the Dj's...


HANG THE PROMOTERS.

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[H.G.Crosby]

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[Roberto Dobbisano]

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[Eric]

Fuck the Dj's...


HANG THE PROMOTERS.

Ummm, what happens when the DJs are the promoters, and they sign my paychecks?

[Simon of the Playa]

HANG SOME PROMOTERS

[Roberto Dobbisano]

your bosses are pirates at the yacht club, may you receive as much booty as you can take....

[Simon of the Playa]

well, pasquale finally sold out to live nation...

bob and sfx are buying insomniac.

[Simon of the Playa]

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[TomServo]

Ummm, what happens when the DJs are the promoters, and they sign my paychecks?

Get your forklift certification. It's ALMOST like working, but you have a machine to do the work for you.

[H.G.Crosby]

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[Roberto Dobbisano]

and so it goes...

[knowmad]

and so it goes...

And I thought it was the End in '92 when the underground started showing up in SoCal bars and clubs that served alcohol. Whatever happened to the warehouse-break-in-raves of the early 90's?

[Simon of the Playa]

those warehouses are now high rent loft space and underground only refers to the parking available.


c'est la vie.

[lemur]

america can always come back to Jazz.. nobody wants to buy that shit.

[H.G.Crosby]

we need more cowbell...