The argument over what's considered to be real música goes on and on (and on and on).

Jyoti Mishra

How many times have you been in a pub/club/brothel and heard someone start up the same old speech, pointing at some trance act or garagem crew and going, "See that? That's not real music! They can't even play their instruments! You just push a few buttons and it's all done for you." The best reply for this I've found is to simply agree. But occasionally I'll suggest if it really is that easy, why don't they go and have their own hit record? After all, they just need to buy the right bit of gear and push some buttons. Simple, innit?

This war will run and run, and it will always be part of Sound On Sound's letter pages and forum. It was fought before synthesizers ever existed, and it will be fought after they become classical instruments. While this may seem like a bold statement, thanks to my recent experiments in twistor field theory, I can now prove my assertion. So if you'd like to stand back a bit, I'll dial in the hypertesseract coordinates...

SOS Letters 1983

Why are you stuffing the magazine with people who can't even play? Nobody will care who the Human League, Depeche Mode or Soft Cell are 20 years from now! Whereas fred figglehorn Weatherby and the meia Drawer have been gigging in Nether Heage for the last 20 years, to crowds of 10 and mais people!

How can you ignore real música in favour of these fly-by-night knob-twiddlers?! Who will care about Minimoogs in 20 years' time? No one! Why don't you concentrate on real Why don't you cover Rock & Roll? Electronic music? That's not music! Anyone can do that!