On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Mr. Agustsson wrote:
quoted 14 lines Josh Wink : Higher State Of Consciousness : Buy this while you>
> >>>Josh Wink : Higher State Of Consciousness : Buy this while you
> >>> still can, serious hedphuq acid over
> >>> cool beats.
> >>
> >>HUH!!
> >>Someone please tell me this is a sad! sad joke!!.
> >>
> >
> >No it isn't! it is a great track!
> >
> The song is as commercial as it gets without being commercial.
> It sucks. (my oppinion, don?t want to step on anyone?s toes)
>
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This song is no more commercial then Jedi Knights remixes of Link or Juan
Atkins or something it that vein, it just happened to be one of those
songs that got played out a shitload due to the label it was on (Strictly
Rythym), and cause it was by hyper hyped man of the 6 month ago moment Josh
Wink, it
was fairly original and I will admit it was pretty damn good too, I try
not to dog something simply because it is popular,
unless of course it sucks shit :). Sometimes I think a few of the list
members would praise and worship 55 minutes of dog farting if it came out
on Warp or Rephlex. Higher State of conciousness got popular also
cause it was identifiable (the time stretched voice saying "Higher State
of Conciousness"), you can't expect the average
Joe-non-trainspotting-idm-freak to be able to identify songs that are all
303's and blips and bleeps, but if you have a nice identifiable sample as
the title of your track joe-consumer can walk into the shop and ask "what
is the song that has the funny keyboard noise that goes wha wha whoo whoo
swissh swissh bleep bleep"
"Huh?" says the shopkeep
"It also says "Higher State of Conciousness or something like that,"
"Higher State of Conciousness, by Josh Wink, there should be about 300 of
them on aisle 5, right next to Slim Whitman."
You know a band like Consolidated knows the value of making their songs
identifiable, "Consolidated" Consolidated con sol i dated.....now that
is what I would call commercial.....reminds me of one of those TV
commercials
"whattya eating?"
"Nuttin honey"
"what are you eating"
"Nut and Honey"
"WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING EATING?"
you get the point
Derek
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