Why? Because it simply is not relevant anymore.
That does not mean that all of our goals have been fulfilled. Rather, what we did is no longer an effective way of doing it.
Our adresses and our manifesto will remain here on this page until we find a new way to get our message out.
On the point of the Namenlos award
The current music industry is a giant, money filled conglomerate. It consists entirely of money and investments, it feeds on money and it is also how it makes itself heard all over the world. It consists of several companies, but what they have in common is that they depend on keeping the eyes of the audience on them. It was in the early days of radio and television that the bloated, giant media companies could take control-which was no problem then, because their broadcasts was the only mass media that existed with their technology.
Later, due to the decreased price and increased capabilities of home recording systems, a larger number of TV and radio stations together with an increasing public awareness of the capitalist nature of the media companies made it necessary for the companies in charge to demonstrate their superiority in a more eye catching way. Thus began the music awards era.
In the last three decades, the face of popular music has changed and turned into a more stale, pre-molded format than anybody could imagine. Producers and A&R men are no longer seeking talents, they are not seeking the best, only the ones that could fit the model of the perfect puppet-preaching the preservation of stereotypes, the almost unthinkably naive conception that nothing else exists than the mainstream.
To show the hip, stylishly correct population what they should like the most, these industries created the Music Award show. The record companies are simply awarding themselves! Not everyone on these giant media spectacles even realize what they are working for. They aren't exposing any new talents. They aren't praising the best with what they deserve, or even slightly contributing to any artistic value. They are only keeping up the status quo, retaining and glamourizing the monopoly of the record industry "giants" that continue to fuel the engine for the global passivisation of listening, of music consumtion as well as with media and life in general.
Even some artists taken under the wing by the "establishment" express the view that the artists that win awards, or top the charts are not always the ones with the most talent. Which isn't even close to the truth. The fact is that in every town, on every street, there are people which undoubtly have more talent than any of the people present on these events, or on the screens of mainstream stardom.
So what is our point with the Namenlos Award? That the self-given awards of the music industry are vain to the receivers and purposely disruptive to everybody that works with music outside of the commercial "industry". Through the inverted glamour created by the award, we hope that just a few more people will be able to realize that not only is all real musical action going on outside the famous music industry, it doesn't even have anything to do with it.
The important thing is not the awards, or the artists recieving them. What's most important is everybody else, and what they think about it. It is called the Namenlos Award because the voters, the people, the majority is nameless. It represents everyone and noone. The same idea is the foundation of the musical mainstream. Except we use it to show what they are really about. Strike back with their own weapon.
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