some music makes my mind race like mad.. kinda like
being on acid (or whatever psychedelic) -- quite literally.. and i am not
sure if somehow certain music just triggers memories of odd trips
where we would sit around and listening to stuff like coil and jj
perrey and mr kingsley and negativland and just escaping into our own
world .. or running about disneyland listening to "disconnected666" over
and over or that mr toad song by boyd rice
..but for whatever reason, some of these "new school" electronic bands
seem to bring up WAY too familiar feelings. i think i first started
noticing this when listening to Metic -- the sounds were, to me, so very
very DXM (yes, cough syrup).. very drippy and gooshy.. and somehow
capturing some of those sounds that only i thought i heard while under the
influence of some of the most disgusting and icky tasting fun ever!
and then of course there was this one song (i can never figure out that
damn track listing!) on autechre's chiastic slide (the opening perhaps?)
where the beats kinda morph and tweek and change -- a lot like when
tripping and trying to stay focussed on one thing, but have it slowly
change -- and never knowing when that change really started or ended (i
get the same thing from some minimal techno)
lately though, so much music has been hitting me in such a way.. even as
periods of sobriety grow greater and greater (and free time less and
less, blah). sutekh, i swear, has got to produce some of the most
psychedelic stuff! even this mix tape i have of his is out of control
(oops.. gotta return that one to a friend hehe). then there is this stuff
on TOM -- like sack and blumm, novisad, etc -- that is just so subtle but so
odd and trippy (for lack of a better word).. and zammuto (one of the most
original and *out there* cds i have ever heard).. OH -and fenno'berg (what
a gem that is!)
so i have been trying to figure out what it is about this music that
catches my mind and pushes it a little bit elsewhere, but have had little
luck.
and im not sure why i wrote this, other than the new sutekh is just so
much in 'that' way for me.. and that the recent discussion of AE rip offs
has involved so many artists that i think take things a little over the edge
in their own special way (arovane, the schematic kids, even lexaunculpt --
but not so much funkstorung :)
so it goes.
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