I also think it's funny how much of "this music" is being labelled as
"laptop music" or "laptop fuckery" or whatever. Especially considering
that most artists only use laptops whilst playing live.
If I ever release anything, I'll have to put a disclaimer like "no laptops
were used/abused during the making of this record"
cheers,
/derek
p.s. true enough, the artists listed are known for playing live using
laptops, so perhaps that's why they focused on them. Autechre, Aphex, and
Squarepusher aren't really "big" in the US for their live shows. Plus, it
seems the US artists are much more "approachable" as far as interviewing
goes... not going to venture a guess why, though :D
At 10:51 PM 7/15/2001 +0800, you wrote:
quoted 13 lines Greetings to everyone,>Greetings to everyone,
>Who has seen the latest issue of Spin Magazine? There is an article called
>"Laptop Punks and Powerbook Pop" and it starts off with talking about Bjork
>and Matmos working together on her Vespertine album. The article was
>interesting but you could tell that the person writting the article really
>didn't know much about the music.
>Apperently they interviewed Matmos, Kid606, Lesser, and quoted Kit Clayton.
>I thought it was quite funny that they believed this genre was lead by
>Americans when the founding pioneers where European. I mean, come on, they
>barely mentioned AE and Aphex Twin, didn't even say anything about
>Squarepusher. They did however, give props to Matmos, Kid606, Lesser,
>Blectum from Blechdom, Marumari, Kit Clayton, Phthalocyanine, Hrvatski,
>Safety Scissors, and Cex. Imagine that.
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