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MAYFIELD RANT 1

While it’s not an issue, I thought you might like a little acid ranting before the issue comes your way in the next couple of weeks, and I felt all of you should know just what the hell happened that I would suspend this strange electronic diatribe for 3 months.
I admit I’m not the most stable entity in the universe nor am I ashamed of it anymore. When we last saw each other, I was in the midst of throwing Issue 7 together, a mammoth orgy of electronic music reviews, album reviews, planned interviews, this view, that view, the other view, some other warped view, a view of my ass, views of other asses, etc., etc., ad nauseam. The upshot was that my health crumbled under the weight of my aspirations and I lost sight of what this misadventure in acid journalism was supposed to be: unidentifiable and only occasionally respectable. I was trying to become Rolling Stone with a staff of one..the very opposite of what I originally envisioned…
Or was it? The years before RS went intergalactic were some of the most awesome and countercultural in any magazine’s history. Somewhere in the murked up, fucked up 80s, the Stone settled down, got a toupee, and traded in the Triumph Bonneville for a Volvo and some nifty sweaters, which is sad to me.
The latest issue has a great interview with Brad Pitt, but the album reviews are tired and hardly any of the groups in the previous issues stray beyond popular mania or endless recountings of re-released glories of the past. Where are the articles on the massive NYC electronic underground? Where are the articles on the outstanding scene, which morphs into a new sound every other weekend, that is exploding in the UK’s Midlands? Where is the coverage of the titanic electronic festivals in Europe, such as Sensation Black, Qlimax, Defqon1, and Thunderdome?
While they HAVE covered what has to be the most unexpected release of the last 20 years (no, NOT Duke Nukem), GNR’s “Chinese Democracy”, there’s sadly anything else as earth-shaking as that to be found anywhere.
I’ll be back on my feet after the holidays have pissed off, and for a while, the massive 200 song issues that I have become known for will just have to wait a bit; what I can promise is something in the way of song reviews, some albums, some mixses, etc., and a different column every other amount of time (banned books, anime, etc.) to fluff it out a bit, and it should be out weekly, not this wait-for-3-weeks-for-a-bunch-of-piss format. I can do that when I have paying subscribers   or not..who knows?
In summation, my fellow aliens, I AM back,. I am warped, I am pissed, and I am stoked..and I’m sorry I had to leave you all for 3 months to peel my head out of my ass. Thanks for waiting. The issues to come may not be Pulitzer material, but it should begood enough for us.

Scott Mayfield
Editor/Reviewer/Head Crayon Eater, Crossfade Grimoire

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