a while ago, i wrote the text "why i left the breakcore scene".
this text created more discussion and feedback than i thought it would... as it was more intended as a personal text.
i feel that in many cases, the point i was trying to make, was cut short. the discussion seemed to revolve more around whether "breakcore" of the past or of the present was better, or more creative, etc.
this was not what i wanted to say. what i felt was, that in the beginning, the scene around breakcore music, was open to a certain ideology, to certain "political", cultural ideas. and i tried to use breakcore music to spread these ideas. a few while later, i felt that it had become virtually impossible to still push these ideas with breakcore music. as breakcore had been infused with a quite different ideology and politics, that were very conformist, pro-consumer society and pro-hierarchy. and i saw no way to counter this process, or rather, i decided it would be wiser to use my energies to spread these ideas in different musical settings, such as speedcore or hardcore, were these ideas could still be communicated and pushed forward. that's why i left breakcore and followed different musical ways.
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