Re: Government funds jungle music

Marc Wright (mw@eis.net.au)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:37:40 +1100


nige wrote:
>
> It's worth pointing out that unlike the US, the triple J network being
> mentioned by our Australian friends is actually non commercial and
> funded entirely by the Australian government for the "good of young
> folk." There's pressure on the neighbouring New Zealand government to
> set up the same there so there's an alternative to the crap played on
> mainstream radio.

Let's hope you get it - but while JJJ is an extremely welcome
alternative to the mainstream, and they do definately have a good go at
playing all styles of 'alternative', it still does end up playing a lot
of crap. And the high-rotation of a lot of stuff soon makes you switch
much of it off as soon as it starts.

Even stuff like Garbage's 'Milk' was brilliant - until you heard it
*every* time you switched the radio on. I get sick of hearing *only* the
singles from albums. I'd usually much prefer to hear what else that
artist had to offer.

What I'd like to hear is a station that has a variety of groovy and/or
cool 1 hour shows and DJ mixes, and just mixes 'em up every day so that
you hear something different each day on the way to work. (Ah, but that
wouldn't work - there's be some shows you'd want to listen to regularly,
and you'd never find 'em).

Anyway, even the better alternative gets boring if it gets too
predictable.

Marc.
(Now playing: DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing.....' - now there's an album
that may suffer the same fate. I heard 'Midnight In a Perfect World' on
the radio the other night - please don't ruin this album for me, guys.)