What is te 1% equivalent of music?

All the protests lately about this whole "we are the 99%" thing got me thinking, what is the 1% in music?

DJ Hardcode

do you have it set up so you get paged every time i post or something?

  On 10/11/2011 at 10:42 PM, BCM said:

DJ Hardcode

me

Im the 1%.

Happy now?

"The U.K.-based dance music magazine Mixmag in February voted him the greatest DJ of all time. His Kaleidoscope World Tour last year, with 175 dates on six continents, raked in more than $28 million, ranking it among the top 25 highest-grossing tours of 2010, according to Billboard magazine."

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/07/entertainment/la-et-night-dj-tiesto-20111008

  On 10/11/2011 at 10:45 PM, Dan C said:

  On 10/11/2011 at 10:42 PM, BCM said:

DJ Hardcode

 

 

I dont know. Maybe Celine Dion or Frank Sinatra? Maybe a waltz? Josh Groban?

Tiesto is definitely up there, definitely.

it's a kinda thread

in electronic music i can easily start by saying BT, Crystal Castles, and a multitude of other horrible musicians

  On 10/11/2011 at 10:45 PM, chassis said:

me

 

Im the 1%.

 

Happy now?

There are only ever 100 active musicians, one of whom is always chassis.

FACT

Most of your favorite bands are either RDJ aliases (eg, Polygon Window, RJD2, Pink, Avril Lavigne) or this guy:

(that's Tiesto, aka BT, aka Slim Joe the Banjo Man)

  On 10/11/2011 at 10:49 PM, underscore said:

"The U.K.-based dance music magazine Mixmag in February voted him the greatest DJ of all time. His Kaleidoscope World Tour last year, with 175 dates on six continents, raked in more than $28 million, ranking it among the top 25 highest-grossing tours of 2010, according to Billboard magazine."

 

http://articles.lati...tiesto-20111008

Oh dude.

/thread

pre-'play' moby can be pretty good though.

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:04 AM, kaini said:

pre-'play' moby can be pretty good though.

Oh. No fuckin doubt. A lot of rich 1% muthas are like totally awesome too. That don't change the fact that they be ballin.

[media='']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmiJRQAMAU[/media]

sometimes billionaires put out good stuff too. (referring to the other genre of 1%) so yeah i agree with you

why are we all just sticking with electronic stuff the 1% is lady gaga. foo fighters. the cast of glee. the jonas brothers. bieber. these are our oppressors.

Is there even a comparable analogue in music? The 1% are a group of economic giants whose practices reap incredible profits at the expense of the other 99%. The only way I can draw the analogy with music is still under the criteria of finance.

Then again, Awepittance may be on to something by mentioning BT, whether he is aware of it, or not. I know for a fact that BT has a few assistants and interns working for him and they do not get any credit for the material they generate that he ends up using. A similar situation exists in the world of film scoring. Several of the big Hollywood film composers have a similar group of ghost writers and assistants generating content based on musical themes and ideas that are given to them by the "composer". Hans Zimmer comes to mind. He's more of a business which operates under his name.

bump

edit: nah don't bump this nvm :(

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:36 AM, Wall Bird said:

Is there even a comparable analogue in music? The 1% are a group of economic giants whose practices reap incredible profits at the expense of the other 99%. The only way I can draw the analogy with music is still under the criteria of finance.

 

Then again, Awepittance may be on to something by mentioning BT, whether he is aware of it, or not. I know for a fact that BT has a few assistants and interns working for him and they do not get any credit for the material they generate that he ends up using. A similar situation exists in the world of film scoring. Several of the big Hollywood film composers have a similar group of ghost writers and assistants generating content based on musical themes and ideas that are given to them by the "composer". Hans Zimmer comes to mind. He's more of a business which operates under his name.

Actually you could probably just say the 1% in music is the execs. The whole analogy holds true when you consider the producers/engineers/musicians the actual workers and the corporate people the erstwhile bankers. They even fuck up in similarly absurd ways (INTERNET? WHATS THAT AND WHY WOULD WE USE IT FOR MARKETING?!?! DURR!)

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:36 AM, Wall Bird said:

Is there even a comparable analogue in music? The 1% are a group of economic giants whose practices reap incredible profits at the expense of the other 99%. The only way I can draw the analogy with music is still under the criteria of finance.

 

I'd say Tiesto fits that quite nicely. At least the motherfuckers who are wrecking the economy have the brains to do so. Tiesto just presses play on a mix he made in Ableton or Traktor and then pretends to tweak the EQs on his mixer. He reaps incredible profits at the expense of others creativity.

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:33 AM, disparaissant said:

why are we all just sticking with electronic stuff the 1% is lady gaga. foo fighters. the cast of glee. the jonas brothers. bieber. these are our oppressors.

True, but Moby is a music licensing powerhouse. Play had every song on it licensed out.

edit

He is one rich mutha. I've seen his fuckin house in the Hollywood Hills. It's fucking gynormous.

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:33 AM, disparaissant said:

why are we all just sticking with electronic stuff the 1% is lady gaga. foo fighters. the cast of glee. the jonas brothers. bieber. these are our oppressors.

fucking u2.

lady gaga, justin bieber and that guy who punched rihanna in the face.

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:49 AM, jefferoo said:

  On 10/12/2011 at 12:33 AM, disparaissant said:

why are we all just sticking with electronic stuff the 1% is lady gaga. foo fighters. the cast of glee. the jonas brothers. bieber. these are our oppressors.

 

 

True, but Moby is a music licensing powerhouse. Play had every song on it licensed out.

 

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He is one rich mutha. I've seen his fuckin house in the Hollywood Hills. It's fucking gynormous.

Holy shit, that is a house.