Seems that Philadelphia techno producer Josh Wink has taken a stand against commercial radio’s obsession with Big Beat mediocrity. CDNow, one of the most venerable news sources for information on popular-music mediocrity, is reporting that Wink took radio programmers to task for their provincial music programming decisions while speaking at a College Music Journal Conference panel entitled, "RPM: Rapid Promotional Movement or Really Poor Marketing?" (RPM is the name that the College Music journal (CMJ) uses to categorize electronic music. This is acronymic logic in its purest and simplest form.)According to CDNow, Wink equated the music being made by groups like the Boom Boom Satellites, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers and Prodigy with rock music. What the connotations of this assertion are, we can’t tell you, but…Wink also disagreed with the view that these bands are paving the way for the electronic music movement. Josh then went on to state, "I feel I don't need my music played on the radio. I was in Noho the other night, coming back from a gallery opening, and I was listening to Liquid Todd. And if the music doesn't sound like breakbeat or Fatboy Slim, then it's not gonna get played...so I wouldn't call that opening stuff up."
It’s nice to see that even with his major label deal on Sony and a tweekin’ acid funk background, Josh can still say something more than "I’m a marketable commodity. Jason Bentley plays my songs."
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