via Tom of Music Thing "Steim - the Dutch folks who make the Cracklebox and lost more besides - need folks to send emails to the Dutch government, to prove that making electronic music isn't just of interest to a 'niche audience'" via STEIM: "Things are not well at STEIM. We are in the danger of losing our structural funding from the government, based on a review from the advisor board which called us 'closed and only appealing to a niche audience'. The outlook isn't exactly bleak, but at the