The statement, "you know how many bedroom producers there are out there? It's terrible," made in the Breakcore Documentary on google video by the breakcore artist Kill the Lime was idiotic. An desperate expression of a yearning to become a part of a boring musical elite. A pathetic desire rooted in a system of celebrity and rock n'roll paradigms that are hopefully crumbling with a massive rise in 'bedroom producers'. The cynical spectacle of hero worship that occurs at concerts is dying and the concept of an elite of musicians who are validated by an audience that knows that it's only their place to consume - not produce - is disintegrating as more people become artists for the fun of it.
With the internet, the entire establishment of popular music has become worthless. Everything is available at once across file sharing networks. Music magazines and their pretensions of knowing what all the 'cool' music is become useless when I can download a song by everyone and judge for myself - ignoring the 'coolness' that's to be transferred to the listener from some dumb rock magazine guy. Music consumption is freed (in part) from being a kind of fasion. Similarly we can find in the rise of netlables and file sharing networks evidence of the worthlessness of a concept of an elite of electronic musicians. American Idol's auditions show how many singers there are out there who sing like major pop-stars, demonstrating how arbitrary it is for any single person to be chosen as a 'star' when such talent is so common. Similarly there are many quality netlabels that demonstrate how many decent electronic composers there are, who equal and often surpass major artists. No one needs to make a celebrity of an artist when there's tons of minor artists who are just as talented except they are just happy to make the music and give it away. Furthermore netlabels have become the site of much recent innovation as their artists explore interesting ideas that have no commercial potential. Meanwhile many traditional labels pathetically pander to an audience by endlessly reusing a successful formula or becoming conservative by doing something like releasing volume after volume of renditions of early-mid 90s ragga jungle.
'Bedroom Producers' have greater merit than the recent electronic elite of new-age disco kings and psuedo-rock stars who laughably alternate between flailing about in front of an audience as the 'music flows through them' and angry posturing while their computer plays as part of a ridiculous effort to look cool. We can make our own music now - without reverence for a stupid, vestigial and boring elite.
Everyone can be an artist - those who don't like it, too bad! Your self-assured sense of good taste and artistic standards are laughable - and your desire to make the world less interesting is pathetic and impotent.
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