Anyone mentioned here, people can invite them by themselves. I may have contacted some, but I guess they won't be irritated if they happen to get 2 or even 3 messages instead of 1.
You could use original invitation text as guide, or just the end of it.
During the recent months I have come into more supportive to idea
of opening new forum. It is in combined to aims to promote and rise profile
of SPECIAL INTERESTS magazine. Aim is to publish magazine 3 times a year,
making it very unique regularly published noise fanzine from fanatics of the
style to other fanatics. No "outsider journalism", no need of just big cult
names to lure casual readers, but really those with interest in subject
matter. Forum with the same title, could work as place to discuss, share &
gather information, promote good material (yours AND others). With same aim
as magazine has. Instead of just 100% social network of best buddies, focus
on inspiring sound and content, what seems sometimes forgotten. Bands and
labels very few seem to care since they're outside their circle of friends,
or not cool enough. Allowing variety in same way as magazine. More of,
should I say the "old" spirit, where records could have Consumer
Electronics, Whitehouse and P16.D4 and same piece of wax without anyone
complaining about crossover. Where one could see jap noise and euro pe
tracks lined up one after another. Avoiding "only extreme PE", "only wall of
noise", "only warm jams of cool dudes" mentalities to specilize on some
ultra limited niche which leads only to be jumped in by wannabe's. Anyone
who may have read my editiorial about motivations of SI zine, can put it in
context of forum.
Forum lacks all the "useless" sections. There is no misc. discussion. There
is no misc music or such. It's focused on:
-Special Interests magazine (only for announcements and info of printed zine)
-Special Interest Sound Discussion (for all types of sound covered & related in SI mag field)
-Special Interest Art Discussion (for all types of art)
-Classified ads (for promotion / sales)
All sections include rules/information about its use.
This message is private invitation sent in advance by person authorized to do so.
It is directed to YOU. Do not pass this information to others at this point.
If you feel like there is need & you have interest, you can join in. The
real opening for public happens at the same time with SI#2, hopefully in end
of January. Meanwhile, I'd hope that small group of interested people could
help in creation of decent amount of topics that on moment of opening forum
to public, it's not merely empty space. Messages can be viewed without
signing in. You can't write without registering/logging.
forum is found: www.special-interests.net/forum/
