The kraftwerk discussion struck a chord in me (so to speak).
I've been out of the music scene for about a year now. I
took a leave because I was spending too much money and I
felt like the albums I was buying were getting more and more
pedantic. I was buying stuff just to own it, listening to
it a couple times, playing it on my show, and stashing it
away.
So, here at the end of a year of being mostly out of it. I
feel at once like a lot of albums have passed me by, and that
the scene has stalled since I left it..
I feel like I'm stuck back in the golden years of the early
nineties. I still listen to the orb, the aphex twin, the ai
releases, orbital's self titled releases, the klf, fortran 5,
system 7.
I am nostalgic for my purchases of years ago. The day I came
home with U.F.Orb, or Surfing on Sine Waves. I remember
when Fortran 5's new album came out and the people at HMV thought
I was crazy. They only bought one copy of it which I snapped up
before they could put it on the shelf.
All this was only a couple years ago. I feel like I need to listen
to the oldies techno stations, but techno is barely old enough to
have oldies. Kraftwerk, Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Tomita,
Eno, these are the oldies of techno and much of their stuff still
sounds fresh in a way that the Eagles don't :).
My point. Concentrate on good music. Music which you will want
to listen to years from now. I still love the song transitions
from the brown album. I still shudder when A Place of Horror
comes on. I still love the icky, squicky noises of Bronchus. I
still love the funny Sound of Music samples from Polygon Window.
How many albums came out this year which you will play again and
again? Will you play orbital's new album as often as you played
the brown album? Will you play Ventolin as often as you did On?
Will you play Tri Repatae as much as you did Incunabula?
[fletcher]