Re: Gilles Peterson Ministry residency

From: Rochelle Mahon (rmahon@paradise.net.nz)
Date: Sat Apr 14 2001 - 02:35:34 CEST

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    Its always an interesting question, is it better that this kind of music
    stays out of the mainstream, or do we encourage a bigger audience, open new
    ears etc? , and does that always mean "corruption" of the sound? GP going
    somewhere like this is an interesting concept, it seems like he's in a
    position to do deals like this where he still maintains his artistic
    integrity. We'll see... he's certainly putting himself about these days
    (witness the XY network tie in).

    I feel like I want to turn people on to this sound, but it does lose some of
    the magic once it gets to popular: eg in the early nineties Massive Attack /
    Portishead sound, every record label hunting for a "trip hop"group
    (preferably with good looking female vocalist). it's happening a bit where I
    live at the moment with the Theivery Corp/ESL stuff, which is now standard
    background music in every second cafe in town, somehow I don't want to
    listen to it when I get home (should stop hanging out in cafes I guess!)

    I've just been looking on the Radio 1 Live in London website checking out
    the tracklisting for Alex Jazzanova's blinding set and I stumbled on this
    comment from Gilles Peterson.
     
    "going to Ministry, which is a pretty sort of unfasionable place in that
    sense was really refreshing, because it was a really urban, mixed crowd,
    which is why I like living in London. That was a real shock to me. It was
    such a shock that I'm going to do a residency there later on this year, as a
    sort of ironic twist on clubbing in the year 2001!"
     
    How weird is that - a residency in Ministry!
     
    just a way of boosting his bank balance or a genuine residency?
     
    any thoughts?



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