
Originally Posted by
sheramil
depends if you want to sell records. or not.
a long time ago, up-and-coming painters discovered it was easier to sell their chimpanzee-style daubings if they were part of a School. like Cubism, or Realism, or Op, or Pop, or NeoWank. if you don't fit at least partly into a genre then you run the risk of being completely ignored. people like being able to attach labels to things; it makes them think they understand them.
an example: the album Hybrid by Michael Brooks, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. i'm not sure how it could be classified; it's instrumental, it's got synth and also traditional African instruments.
if you can find it, it's well worth a listen. if you can't find it, go to the video store and rent the horror film Cube 2: Hypercube. the theme music from that is a direct Brooks ripoff.
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