I think if you take any music and try and pigeonhole it in a musical
category, you limit your abilitiy to truly absorb it by clouding your mind
with expectations that a particular genre give.
Don't think Industrial when listenong to Cylob. Think music. It is quite
an interesting bit of music. How someone might go about layering noise in
a musical manner like that is amazing. Very few artist have managed to
actually use noise musically. Most of today's "industial" artists go
nowhere near noise. Most of today's "noise" artist go nowhere near music.
Cylob and I'd have to say Kinesesthesia (though I haven't heard Empathy Box
and the remixes yet) do an excellent job of being noisey while ramaining
musical.
This is very tough and I challenge any of you to pull it off with the
finesse that these releases have. I'm not quite sure I agree about RDJ's
releases doing this though. I feel him much more musical with a gritty
edge. I haven't heard everything though, so I haven't any clue what he's
up to now. I do have Ventolin, however, which is still gritty to me but
still very musical. Paradinas has an uncanny ability to pull off using
sounds which if used by others would sound cheap and campy. Paradinas'
music isn't noisy, it's just bold and dares to incorporate sounds and
styles which everyone else fears or just plain misses.
Of course this is all my very biased opinion.
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