WHO WE ARE

Staimusic is a blog dedicated to music, told through the eyes of the 90s.
In an era when CDs and cassettes dominated the scene, listening to music meant immersing oneself in a complete journey: from the beginning to the end of an album, or at least a song, experiencing each piece in its cultural and social context. We're not here to promote TikTok or Spotify's 15-second disposable music. We support conscious, whole and deep listening, which enhances the sense of belonging and identity. For us, music is not a product to be consumed quickly, but an art form that is born and grows within a social and motivational context, becoming the voice of groups of people, their thoughts and their needs.

We are on the side of niche music, the real one, which has something to say.
Not the one artificially created to imitate emotions or sell empty dreams, destined to seem false and fade over time. We reject commercial pop, easy music pumped up by the majors to make easy money on the backs of an unaware audience. This trivialization of music culture has become an increasingly obvious problem in recent years, with the rise of AI-generated or three-button songs created without any cultural depth.

Staimusic is against the trivialization of music and culture.
We believe in criticism: we analyze, discuss, welcome confrontation, even when it concerns ourselves. Our blog wants to be a reference point to explore the musical paths that have marked history, far from the distractions of mobile phones, advertising slogans and superficiality. Staimusic is nostalgia for a time when music defined who you were, when you belonged to a social group and tried to stand out without giving in to trivialization. We are here to keep that vision alive: authentic music, designed for those who want to listen, reflect and experience music in all its depth.

– And what is his name? – Staimusic. –Ah... And what is it?
When they ask us what Staimusic is, we always have that moment of frost, we don't know what to say, it's a streaming music service, or a music magazine, maybe a blog. Answering is not easy. But let's start from the beginning. Music streaming is a fort on top of a mountain where we find Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play, it is a place where the base is built by multinationals not interested in music and a lot in money, and the walls are built by the same users who use their apps.

A village at the foot of the mountain
How many times have we been criticized for the service we offer? Countless. The basic awareness is that we don't want to enter that fort, it's not in our philosophy, we prefer to stay in a village under the mountain, with our flaws and with our passion for music. No, we want to turn the music world into a chain of restaurants, you order, you sit down, you consume and you leave quickly, no! We are here to help you choose the music you like, we want to force you to reflect on the reasons for your sound choices and the ideas behind your own choices.

A forum or a magazine?
We are not perfect and we never conclude anything, which is why we are sometimes similar to a music forum, because after all we always hope that an idea will be born that will lead you to question yourself and revise your ideas, or to criticize us or help us improve. So, are we a music magazine? No! Our priority is not to give you news or articles to read. The world of music magazines is a city that we cannot approach, not having the means to reach and enter it. In this case, we are not so critical.

Beethoven's Ninth
Unlike a music magazine, where the songs are pills and are secondary to the articles, for us they are an integral part of the sound flows we generate and the playlists we produce, such as the length of the CD, 12 cm, chosen because it is exactly the 74 minutes and 33 seconds of the maximum duration of Beethoven's Ninth conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler or like a vinyl, A conceptual work in which the artists have dedicated hours and hours of work.

Staimuto's manifesto. Yes, you got it right, it means SHUT-UP
Music must be savored and enjoyed, over the years and within its history and in the particular myth it has created. So, don't expect from our site indications on how to download music, it would be like reducing it to a disposable item. Power to search, exaltation of boredom and wasted time, mystification of the pearl and the musical masterpiece. We take up the old manifesto of the Staimuto collective, written in 2008 in Milan by a group of intellectuals who wanted to change their vision of art, and we make it our own.

"Enough with the usual sad need to produce something that pleases, ideas must be free, independent and personal.
What we assume must not be pleasant, pleasant or commercial, but must represent a feeling, an emotion, a will.
The songs, the lyrics, the images must not follow already established soap opera metrics or scripts, they must follow an evolution, accustom the senses to something new, perhaps unpleasant and irritating, but if we continue to follow pop we will always end up hearing the same compositions over and over again.
Let's give dignity to mistakes. Intellect as art, not as a means of making money. We don't want to please anyone, but we want to scratch our thoughts and spur yours. STAIMUTO, don't criticize, listen, watch, appreciate, think and develop something that is yours.
rough concepts!!"

Yes, maybe we're a bit snobbish, but it's worth it (sbam, punch in the face)
In answer to the main question, we are a hybrid between music streaming and magazine, we are a website with the desire to change the vision of music and give it back the decorum that is losing, victim of a slow and inexorable decadence. The big multinationals are operating a savage cultural plunder, tedious slaves of vile money. Music is no longer a discipline for connoisseurs, but a complete opening to the ox people, where non-quality is rewarded and discipline, refinement and the need for musical styles are forgotten to make the musical message simpler, more open to all the masses. We know that this speech sounds snobbish and archaic, but we do not look for excuses and we do not want to look away, we embrace all our responsibilities. Making, searching for and listening to music requires commitment, it is difficult to use and it is a complex activity. Such an attitude will lead to the purest appreciation and enjoyment of music.