90% of the records in Boomkat/Wire that you haven't heard of will be some derivative of /free/ music, and will be shit.
It'll be made by people that think pseudo-artistic process can trump talent and skill; that the means justifies the ends. And it doesn't. Basically like most of the shit that plays at Cafe Oto on a Tuesday night. Yeah, it'll sound cool when you tell your friends about how you went to Hackney and saw this amazing free music band play an hour and half non-stop set of improvised 'music' with Steve Noble on drums (always fucking Steve Noble on drums!); but did you enjoy it? Of course you fucking didn't. It was shit and boring. And you know it, but you won't admit it because you want to look super alternative and sophisticated. More alternative than ATP even - SUPER ALTERNATIVE! Yeah, maybe it was fun for about five minutes that some old guy with a crazy white beard had mic'd up a metal dustbin that he was playing with a saw, but you quickly realise that the idiots on stage have no more clue than you do what they're doing; they just happen to be arrogant enough to think that what they're doing should be seen by other people. It shouldn't. You should go home and thank your parents that because of them you didn't turn out to be a moron with ideas above your station, and think that simply because you once did acid, you dress like a tramp and you live in a shithole, this is some instant gateway to artistic credibility. Because, hey, we've all read 'Down and Out in London and Paris' and half a Bukowski novel, right? Poverty is glamour!