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THE_ACOUSTIC_FIREHOSE

                                              July 14, 2007

The writers of the British 
music magazine "The Wire" 
lament the success of their
mission...                                MEDIA_FAST


  "Growing up in Idaho, then moving to
   Montana and finally Portland, Paul Dickow
   aka Strategy experienced, even as late as
   the 90s, a real difficulty in accessing
   the music he loved.  That increasingly
   rare sense of the music as distant and
   preciously hard to come by informs the
   shifting, gaseous _Future Rock_."

         David Stubbs, reviewing
         "Future Rock" by Strategy
         June 2007 issue of "The Wire"                   LONDONS_GRIMING
         p. 53


   "Seems that people have always been doing
   this kind of stuff.  Maybe I'm just being
   old and cantankerous, but sometimes I
   wonder about the availability of music
   these days.  Now if you want to hear
   something, you can.  It's really easy.
   Young people especially are aware of a
   much wider range of music than I was.
   Maybe that's not good for them, maybe if
   more was left to their imagination..."

            Neil Campbell of "A-Band",
            "Astral Social Club", etc.
             June 2007 issue of "The Wire"
             p. 20





     The artist exists in an
     interconnected web of art --        HYPER

     But if the mesh is too fine,
     the interconnections too
     tight, the artist becomes
     trapped in a net...

               CONTROL



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