My goodness, people. Richard James is just a person, like everyone else on
this list. He has creative ideas, and he expresses them through music. We
all have creative ideas which we express in music or other fashions.
I personally don't care if he makes his own machines. I personally don't
care if he's the nicest guy on earth. I personally don't care if he's got
300 albums stashed away with titles like 98.39900164582532201 on them.
None of these facts/fictions will make me buy the albums unless I like
them. I like them, so I buy them. I like them because they have an edge to
them. They swim, they float, they drive, but they do it in a way that
makes me sit up and go, "Wow!" I love "Quoth" with that unstoppable beat,
that hollow sound, that pulsating rhythm. I also like "Analogue Bubblebath
3" with all the water sounds, the gurgling, the ambient textures. If you
asked me, I'd tell you that I think he's excellent at what he does, and he
does it in an area I like a lot already. He's among the cream of the crop,
IMHO.
But he's not God. Jack Dangers is. :-)
No seriously folks, I wish more people would try to take music at face
value. Regardless of all the extraneous twaddle, do you like the music?
Why? Why not? Tell us. But don't tell me that Richard James is so cool
that his dog is named 0.481673992, because that tells me nothing about
the sounds emitted by the speakers.
- Adam J Weitzman
INDIVIDUAL, Inc.
weitzman@individual.com