Greek dog-music: A scene of "dogs" barking against each other, instigating within each other hate and jealousy and guilt, perpetuating eventually what is musically an ethnic cultural disease. Songs of hate, jealousy, revenge, thirst for power, and glorification of... interpersonal mud predominate!

But this "disease" is not Greek at all. It is the denial of Greekness (Hellas), internalised and turned inside-out and outside-in, against itself, as cultural poison. Negative vibes, negative memes, negative ideas and negative music, like... polluted drugs, are served by big record companies to the masses!

2.  Some antidotes against "skyladiko"

We do have some excellent musicians in Hellas (Greece), generally not well known, especially outside Greece. We have quite a few excellent ballad-writers and rock musicians many of whom are forced to work in irrelevant jobs or in "skyladiko music clubs" to earn their living. We have people like Kotsiras, Malamas, Vangelis, Yannis, Antaios, Avaton, to name but a few.

What we do NOT have is a systematic theoretical attempt to transcend the music pulp culture of our country, from a radically psychoanalytical and politically progressive point of view. We think of trash-music as "normal", and some of us pride ourselves to have gone beyond it. But this is really selfish, as it only feeds our egos, "we" being the "selected few", and it allows the others, who are regarded as inferior and ignorant, to continue consuming musical trash without any criticism and without anything positive -as an antidote against it.  "Anti--skyladiko political thought" is therefore absent in Greece... till now. This site is the world's first site devoted to this kind of criticism. It's not a hate-site, but a cultural therapy site, devoted to cleansing Greece of all the musical trash, which masquarades as "Greek music". -It's not even Greek; In fact most of it is musically Turkish. And its' lyrics are often quite awful too. If you hire... paranoid schizophrenics to write down their ideas and delirious patterns of behaviour on paper, you'd probably get much better lyrics than these! :-)

3.  Inviting you to join us

This is the VERY FIRST attempt at such a controversial web-page. It is not meant to be a "hate site", but a constructive cultural criticism site. So please bookmark this page and visit it often. We will soon have a guest-book, a public forum, and other facilities for you to express yourself. Last but not least, we will include links to other musicians, composers, and groups who feel the same way as we do, against "skyladiko". Here is our first link:

The ALTERNATIVE GREEK MUSIC NETZINE