The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.
Paul MorleyThrough pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.
Paul MorleyIt's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.
Paul MorleyI think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.
Paul MorleyThe corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
Paul MorleyI'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.
Paul Morley