Producer Panel: Sharam and BT answer question about what it means when our music goes mainstream

A very interesting discussion around an attendee's question of what happens when a dance music track reaches the mainstream through the commercialization of that music as it passed from underground to mainstream, and how it can usurp the original artists intent, exploit the music and enrich others, leaving the originating creator without his or her proper due. One of the most important discussions I've heard in my 15-years attending the Winter Music Conference. BT raises the bar here. His argument is thoughtful, powerful and certainly intelligent.

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• BT
• Sharam
• Producer Panel
• WMC 2009
• Winter Music Conference
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[jrok66]

you have other videos of this?

[djtonyz]

I wish I did...I got there late and didn't have the chance to record more.

[NodokaXan]

this whole thing relates to Bt's situation cause he really does deserve so much more recognition when he creates something at that time cause I regretably only found out about him two years ago where as i could have known much more had he been hyped up and recognized like other artists

[pryncera]

lol. You can sooo tell his mom was a shrink by some of his qualifying factors. Pretty funny and yeah well said

[EssentialRadio]

lol BT is amazing!!! 3:50

[TherussianorphanII]

@eatthatmeatball I agree 1000%. We hope that it can be validated as it is and not when its changed.

[john420e]

Thanks for recording this. I wish we could have heard the question.

[eatthatmeatball]

I used to feel like the guy who asked the question. I didn't want the underground music that I liked to become well-known because then, it's like... it's not mine anymore. It's everybody's now. And I don't like the way that the masses treat music. I don't want a track from "This Binary Universe" or "These Hopeful Machines", which mean a lot to me, to just be thought of as "some dance shit from 2010".

And yet, at the same time, I wish everyone in the world would hear it and love it as much as me.

[MrTonyawake]

He is well known and he don't need smb recognitions. If u decsovered him 2 years ago its only ur problems mate. BTs purpose is not to be famous. He is talented and he makes music with soul instead of other djs and producers and many people knows that.

[nejamo]

sasha looks the same as i used to in lectures... bored and just wants them to shut up so he can leave!

[Narzod]

Thanks for posting this. I was there as well. I'll be posting my WMC videos shortly