the direction of the electronic scene and the music market. If anyone was quick to realize that the old-fashioned musical infrastructure was about to collapse, it was Paap. Once he sold tens of thousands of singles and CD’s, but on his new label Electric Deluxe only digital releases will be available. His own as well as those of the musical friends he has made the world over.

Although Jochem Paap enjoys chiselling at sounds alone in his cube studio for hours on end, he is anything but an einzelgänger. Such is evident in his Collabs-project, through which he has been collaborating with various techno musicians since 2004. The German Chris Liebing and Paap collaborate most fruitfully. Together they play DJ sets in clubs for hours and released the albumBailout: Necessary evil or corporate welfare?

AP Photo/Charles DharapakPresident Bush listens as then-Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House about his selection to replace outgoing Treasury Secretary John Snow on May 30, 2006 in Washington. (

"Hundreds of billions" of taxpayer dollars would be involved in saving the nation's reeling financial institutions from themselves under a plan being worked on this weekend (Sept. 20-21) by Treasury officials and members of Congress.

Is this necessary to save the nation from deeper economic dysfunction, possibly a recession or worse? Or is this, as the old saying goes: "Socialism for the rich, private enterprise for the poor"?

What's your view?

Should financial houses and banks that gambled and lost be rescued from their bad deals by the