quoted 4 lines Oh God, how I yearn for something NEW. Something like Art of Noise, Orb,> Oh God, how I yearn for something NEW. Something like Art of Noise, Orb,
> Aphex, and yes, PWEI hitting my ears for the first time. Ethno-Techno has
> become its own parody and we're wading in "intelligent" Techno, so it becomes
> difficult to discern just what it is to be "out of the ordinary" anymore.
Want something new? Get ahold of Dana Watanabe and ask him for Jonah Sharp's
phone number, then call him up and fly him out to Salt Lake and let him spin.
I hope Dana won't mind me quoting him here (Jonah spun here in Irvine last
night):
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Jonah Sharp is pretty darn incredible ...
The Ambient Thanksgiving party got thrown for a loop when enough people showed
up to have a line that was overly long (this was also due to overly careful
searching for weapons).
So Jonah didn't play much ambient stuff ...
But he played a lot of stuff that was really weird mental music ... he played a
bunch of stuff that I would have NO idea how to classify, and it was a lot of
stuff that would be in different categories if I did ... so I didn't only hear
a lot of new music, I heard a lot of new styles of music ...
And he finished off with ... I think Floatilla and Tranquilizer ... and well,
the place was near empty by then and the walls and roof were literally shaking
from the bass. I had never really heard either of those songs before.
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To which I can only add a hearty "Amen". Jonah played a LOT of different
styles of stuff, from Terre Thaemlitz to this really mental stuff that sounded
like Trance Jungle Dub (oh, hell, it had Trance-style long keyboard lines
layered over this really mental sorta Jungle-cum-Breakbeat drumming that
sounded like it was recorded by a live drummer and sped up, and then there was
some Raggamuffin vocal snippets thrown in occasionally with the random deep Dub
bass note tossed in for good measure).
I realize I don't get out much - once a week or so - but *I* heard a lot of
stuff/styles that were new to my ears ...
- Greg