THE RISE & FALL OF… WMC STARDUST!

Further to the reception of reactions in regards to our last editorial , we found necessary gettin’ back where it left and go further way, most likely with the hope to contribute bringing a better understanding in an environment where an obviously inappropriate use of certain words has ended up diminishing their signification, when not destroying their original meaning…

Quite ironical at the end of the day, not to say iniquitious to see how, on our legitimate will to give further explanations as what to expect in regards to a record, an artist performance - and even more from a community which has faced a blatant lack of exposure for an eternity – we as a whole have come to generate a situation similar to a complete mash up as far as the said general public is concerned…

Can’t get off my head the answers I’ve been given in the streets of Miami while askin’ my way to go to the WMC the very first time I went to Florida… Not only was I said : WMC? Never heard of this! But also: House music? Wot is house music??? Oooops, was to forget… This happened in… 1996!!! But wait a minute, this was just to be the beginning. But most likly what would appear to me as the beginning of the end from a year to another. I remember the first impression which was mine when the WMC got from the famous Fontainebleau-Hilton to another place… And what a location for f*** sake!!! Where all of us were offered to meet in the middle of a concrete playground under the sun with an overdose of kwatts from a sound system left c/o that same handful of wankaz which had already started polluting the Ibiza Summers a couple of years before… This resulting in most of the labels doing their thing on their own way at a whole bunch of different locations the following years.

And that pitiful story to have further developments along with time. I also remember participating to some press panel at the beginning of the 2000’s where we was supposed to talk about the way to break an artist from a (supposedly) journalist perspective. There, I remained listening for almost 20 minutes to what would be said by my US and British collegues (I only wish there would have been someone representing Blues & Soul, Straight No Chaser or German publication Groove !!!). And you-know-what??? I never heard a single mention to… house music… The only exemple given being the one of Moby, speakin’ of which, the least we can say is that he didn’t have not much to do with the reputedly subject of our preoccupations…

I guess I coudn’t help sayin’ to the assistance how far I felt from, not to say how shocked I was by the irresponsible attitude of the majority of my collegues and more particularly the Brits who, instead of talkin’ about music on itself, were using the subject to promote the use of substances from March til’ September while presenting the Ibiza summery extravaganza as the supreme art of life from a year to another!!! And I guess what sadly happened to Ibiza finally occured in Miami with the WMC joinin’ forces with the Ultra Festival and all of a sudden leavin’ those who made it what it initially was to the rank of obscure second roles…

Yes folks, strange although pretty much expectable how history seems to repeat itself from a genre/a period to another, resulting in the same kind of reactions here and there as to how it was before and what it has become. This most likely happening with the corporates putting their fingers on it then diverting the whole from its original spirit with the help of inevitable wanabees in search of fast makin’ stardom with the incomes that come with…

No need tellin’ you I guess how the supposedly house of the aforementioned will NEVER be our HOME! MFSB

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