daMusic, The Next Generation!

(For all the English readers, this is a post about the great Belgian online musiczine daMusic, for which i write sometimes. You won’t understand a word of what is being said, there, but you can take a look and look at all the shiny colours!)

Voor de Nederlandstaligen onder ons: websites zijn als sokken. Na een tijdje komen er gaten in, en dan moet je er nieuwe kopen. Sokken die bovendien 10 x beter zitten dan de oude. Dat is zowat het verhaal achter de nieuwe daMusic, in dwaze metaforen uitgelegd dan.

In elk geval ziet de nieuwe daMusic-site er flitsender uit dan eender welke andere Nederlandstalige muzieksite, en is hij wel 100 x zo leuk. HEt is als ‘n speeltuin met glijbanen zoals je die nergens anders tegenkomt!..

Verdieping, verbreding, verruiming. daMusic is niet web 2.0, niet 3.0, maar 4.0. De toekomst is nu!

enfin, veel lofzang, maar ik ben dan erg blij met deze metamorfose. Wat ziet hij er toch mooi uit. Allemaal ‘n kijkje gaan nemen dus!

www.damusic.be

Extreme indie!

Yesterday, at an editorial meeting from daMusic, the great Dutch musiczine i’m engaged in, someone described me as “Extreme indie”.

Great!, I Thought, “finally recognition for the endless searches of new music and the piles of awfully bad music I’ve been going through these last years. I can finally say I’m extreme indie and retire. I hope someone will make a movie out of my life as an extreme indie.” Too bad he didn’t call me an indie snob (cause basically, that’s what I am… i can do really – to my own enjoyment i must admit – be mean about music i do not like, although i try to avoid it)

In the train home i started thinking what defines me as such. Is it these eternal endless quests of looking for music that no man has ever heard before and I can say “I knew him before anyone else did” ? (in fact, i just look for music because i don’t have a girlfriend to spend all this free time with). I think it has got more to do with the fact that I’m not willing to let the radio stations and record labels tell me what I need to listen and like. (and because i’m a bit of a maniac in music stuff) In all those music-discovering years I’ve found so many amazing things that will never be heard on radio stations (probably because the majority of the people hate the stuff I like), that i can’t stop looking now. My searches will go on, thanks to all the hundreds of music lovers on the internet that, just like me, share one thing : their love for music.

According to Google Images the picture underneath is “Extreme indie”. WEll, i’m not like that.