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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: List of Music "Rags"
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 07:31:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  3 07:31:53 1984
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Ever wonder what Eliot Carter, Mutabaruka, Gamelan Music, Psychic TV, and
the Meat Puppets have in common?

A truly wonderful magazine that deserves mention is `OP'. They specialize
in independent labels and non-mainstream recorded music, in particular
thirdworld, industrial noise-music, avant garde classical, jazz, country
and western, hardcore, metallic punk, ambient, folk, rockabilly, and
international traditional music.

Noticeably absent is music on money crazed labels like Atlantic, Columbia,
RCA, DGG, Warner, &c. Each issue has hundreds of reviews, frequently by
readers, and articles that focus on part of the alphabet -- for instance,
they did `T' in october and discussed Throbbing Gristle, Tibetan music,
Toots and the Maytals, Mark Tucker... (but NO Talking Heads since they
receive enough exposure elsewhere).

Also included is plenty of info about where to locate such diverse music --
long lists of allied publications, organizations, radio stations, and
especially mail order addresses. You'd be surprised how often weird music
can be found for a nominal charge or even FREE!

In case you hadn't noticed, the DIY (do-it-yourself) movement is currently
generating a huge amount of absolutely wonderful music that few people ever
bother to listen to. It's obviously in the big record companies' interest
to keep a small manageable group of prepackaged `stars' if the listening 
public is idiotic enough to keep coming back to eat that shit...

-michael