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davidka · Post by **davidka** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:36 pm

hibidy wrote:I'm going to hate myself for this......

what is "BT?"

Long before he and stuttering got sucked into this mainstream thing, I used to have his album "This Binary Universe". Had some really neat tracks. Damn, I start to feel like a hipster.

BUT listen to this, I think you'll like it

lotus2035 · Post by **lotus2035** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:28 pm

davidka wrote: Long before...I used to have his album "This Binary Universe".

I still think of that as one of his "new" albums.

I liked his style back on 'ESCM' and kind of on 'Movement in Still Life' but by then the commercialism was already creeping in to his sound.

Brittlestem · Post by **Brittlestem** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:29 pm

davidka wrote:
hibidy wrote:I'm going to hate myself for this......

what is "BT?"

Long before he and stuttering got sucked into this mainstream thing, I used to have his album "This Binary Universe". Had some really neat tracks. Damn, I start to feel like a hipster.

BUT listen to this, I think you'll like it

That's a great track.
And this is an inspiring interview with the endorsement whore himself - http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/ ... est-honor/

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:35 pm

Karten wrote:I endorse KVR. For free.

If you think that then guess again

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:36 pm

Okay, I guess I should've specified why it was kind of annoying. It's not that the endorsers are making tons of money. That's never bothered me. It's that when the same people endorse every single product under the sun, it makes each individual endorsement a little less impressive. I don't mean that these endorsers aren't skilled. Obviously they are. I'm aware that's why the companies like them to be their poster children (that and they're well known).

It's much like Mikey from Life cereal commercials. Even if you have a 10 day old McDonalds Big Mac... "Give it to Mikey. He'll eat anything!" And a couple of weeks later, you see Mikey on a Subway commercial...Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Of course, this fact probably doesn't occur to people who don't string those two concepts together. It might just be that my brain is wired differently.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:04 pm

I agree. When an artist endorses everything in sight, it diminishes the value of their opinion. Either that, or it gives the impression that they'll say anything for a buck. A good friend of mine knows a lot of well-known musicians, and most of them have endorsement deals with manufacturers, often ones they don't like or even use. Like when they have Peavey amps on stage, not even plugged in, and Marshalls hidden behind them. I guess everyone needs to earn a living, but I would feel pretty conflicted putting my name on something I didn't even like.

cron · Post by **cron** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:09 pm

I recall Richard Devine endorsing loads of things a few years back. Seeing him set a NEKO on fire Hendrix style then start smashing at it with a baseball bat at Open Labs' NAMM party was quite amusing.

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:17 pm

cron wrote:I recall Richard Devine endorsing loads of things a few years back. Seeing him set a NEKO on fire Hendrix style then start smashing at it with a baseball bat at Open Labs' NAMM party was quite amusing.

LOL! I remember that! He really doesn't strike me as that kind of musician. He's always seemed like such a nerd. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Nerds are awesome. But smashing your instrument to death onstage reeks of punk rock aggression. It doesn't really fit and looks painfully staged.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:40 pm

I wish I got paid for all my endorsements

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:35 pm

hibidy wrote:I wish I got paid for all my endorsements

I think she can help you:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristiknupp

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:53 pm

masterhiggins wrote:It's that when the same people endorse every single product under the sun, it makes each individual endorsement a little less impressive.

Keep in mind that there are different levels of endorsements. For example, BT designed Stutter Edit and worked on it for years, that's a lot different from him just showing up in an ad for a keyboard that he may or may not ever play.

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:59 pm

cron wrote:I recall Richard Devine endorsing loads of things a few years back. Seeing him set a NEKO on fire Hendrix style then start smashing at it with a baseball bat at Open Labs' NAMM party was quite amusing.

Nothing beats a good stage show. Destroying functional Instruments always seems childish to me though. Invest in better cocaine instead if you need to waste money

metalifuxx · Post by **metalifuxx** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:11 pm

You can't get much more commercial than composing the Windows 95/98 startup theme, which BT did, which anyone in the world who owned a Windows PC at the time, has heard thousands of times, if they did not disable the windows sounds after first boot up. I am sure anyone who used a PC at that time will also remember it to this day as well. Unless you changed the startup wav file to something like Slayer's song Angel of Death, which I did as a funny prank to a freshman year dorm mate in college, who refused to disable his windows sounds and always had the speakers on, and loud

Ghostwave · Post by **Ghostwave** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:20 pm

metalifuxx wrote:You can't get much more commercial than composing the Windows 95/98 startup theme, which BT did

Wrong. That was Brian Eno, a very different Brian...

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:22 pm

nothing to see

Endorsement Whores