I just have a question. I am sure that Chemical Brothers are influenced
by Meat Beat Manifesto, but I don't know whether I would say CB are MBM
deconstructionist. Both bands borrow heavily from others people. Meat
Beat has sampled a lot of other people, and there are many people
sampling Meat Beat. A friend of mine was commenting that the new Chemical
Brothers remix of Dave Clarke used a sound from an MC Shan song. The
Chemicals said that when they first got started they tried to sound like
a mix of Renegade Soundwave and some else (wasn't MBM). Would you say
that Meat Beat are deconstructionist of Public Enemy? I wouldn't say
that. I don't think that deconstructionist is an appropriate term,
influenced, inspired, something like that maybe.
One person, who I would say is a Deconstructionist is Aphex Twin. A lot
of his remixes of other artist (at least the one's he doesn't like), tears
the original song to shreads, and reworks it so that it sounds totally
alien to the original. I always love hearing an Aphex Twin remix. But I
may have different meaning to the term 'deconstructionist', then you do.