Music Ally goes to GFC Vision

Last weekend, Music Ally headed for New York to attend an event called GFC Vision. GFC is a group of 10 creatives – DJs, graphic designers, producers, artists and labels – led by Pedro Winter, ex Daft Punk manager, and now manager of Justice and Parisian label Ed Banger Records.But the driving force behind it is US beer company Miller Genuine Draft, which is trying to associate itself with innovative music thinking. A bit like Bacardi, except instead of ‘signing’ Groove Armada, they've gathered this bunch of creative types who are apparently going to meet every six months somewhere in the world, and Discuss Music Stuff.The panel is suitably cosmopolitan: DJs from the US, Japan and Russia, hip-hop artists from South Africa and South Korea, and so on. It reminds us a bit of that Nokia Music Recommenders project a while back, except instead of compiling music playlists, this panel is compiling and swapping ideas. The inaugural event that we attended featured a guest speaker, former journalist, pirate DJ and now author Matt Mason. Read on for our report.Actually, the most interesting session was the middle one, where Mason gave a talk based on his book The Pirate's Dilemma.To paraphrase [...]