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quoted 3 lines so, what's the appeal with working with bjork? funkstorung do it, plaid do

>so, what's the appeal with working with bjork? funkstorung do it, plaid do >it, even microscopic fleas do it. >maybe she just pays a lot.

Again, the concept that Bjork might actually be a interesting musician in her own right seems to escape some people, as if there must be some reason to work with her besides the fact that she's a great artist (I still think it's unconscious sexism). Regardless of who she works with, her music has a distinct and unique sound (when she writes songs for other singers you can hear it immediately - how many musicians can you identify simply by the sound of a melody? Prince comes to mind ...) that clearly is her own and not her collaborators'. In many cases her collaborators have done their very best work with her, with most of their non-Bjork work not quite measuring up (IMHO). Anyway, a friend of mine saw her last week on an Amtrak train in upstate New York, working with some music software on her laptop. My friend is familiar with sequencers and most commercial music software, but he said that the software she was running was unfamiliar to him. - Cf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 2 lines so, what's the appeal with working with bjork? funkstorung do it, plaid do

> >so, what's the appeal with working with bjork? funkstorung do it, plaid do > >it, even microscopic fleas do it.

i think there is alot to be said for working with other artists. everytime we collaborate with other musicians, especially ones with a background of more "traditional" (i.e. rock/folk/country etc.) music we come away from the experience with much more than we would from a normal "putzing around in the studio alone" session. bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration: 1) she is very imaginitive and experimental ... much more likely to allow an electronic artist do something off-the-wall than, say, Madonna -- who gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer like William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of doing something really creative. 2) her songs are great .. both lyrically and musically 3) to be business minded, she has a huge audience and immediate name recognition which will bring exposure to any artist who works with her... do you think Mark Bell would be producing Depeche Mode's next album if he hadn't run the boards on "Homogenic"? well ... maybe, they did get Tim Simenon for their last one I guess... -- String Theory : Digital Music for Humans http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 6 lines bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration:

> bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration: > 1) she is very imaginitive and experimental ... much more likely to allow > an electronic artist do something off-the-wall than, say, Madonna -- who > gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer like > William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of doing > something really creative.

umm, not to be nit-picky...and not that i actually enjoy madonna's music, but didn't she get Funkstorung on her latest album? or am i pulling this out of my ass? though, even if Madonna did work with Funkstorung on this occasion, Bjork is, still, '_much more likely_ to allow an electronic artist do something off the wall'... but don't count Madonna out, is all i'm saying. semblance (Jesus cured lepers, you often not. Jesus did not, however, cure leprosy.) _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

<!--Sorry to semblance, I meant to send this to everyone...--> There's no contest. Here's a story. It is true. I have this musician friend who lives in New York, he was in a great math-rock band called The Cranium. They split up and he did some various projects, one of which led him to meet Bjork. She heard some of the music, liked it and offered to fly him out to Europe to record some stuff for her. Yup, flew him to Eurpoe, just like that. I don't know her personally, but by all accounts Bjork records tons of music from an extremely diverse range of musicians, then adapts it into her style. She is extremely nice and good hearted, which is how she can get away with this. For some reason I don't think Madonna would even consider something this adventurous. -Lee on 9/26/00 11:23 AM, semblance at semblance@netzero.net wrote:

quoted 28 lines bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration:

>> bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration: >> 1) she is very imaginitive and experimental ... much more likely to allow >> an electronic artist do something off-the-wall than, say, Madonna -- who >> gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer like >> William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of doing >> something really creative. > > umm, not to be nit-picky...and not that i actually enjoy madonna's > music, but didn't she get Funkstorung on her latest album? or am i > pulling this out of my ass? > > though, even if Madonna did work with Funkstorung on this occasion, > Bjork is, still, '_much more likely_ to allow an electronic artist > do something off the wall'... but don't count Madonna out, is all > i'm saying. > > semblance > (Jesus cured lepers, you often not. Jesus did not, however, > cure leprosy.) > _______________________________________________ > Why pay for something you could get for free? > NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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Y'all can go on about this in your usual style for a while, but here's the essential question: If you saw Bjork with a laptop on a bench with headphones on wouldn't you want to know what she was hearing? I'm hot and cold with her material. I've only got one of her albums. I bought it for $2 on cassette at the drugstore checkout line. But you can't deny that she's one of those people who are rotated 90 degrees in the complex plane from the rest of humanity. And I always want to know what THEY are doing. kent williams -- kent@avalon.net http://www.mp3.com/chaircrusher -- tunes http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=chaircrusher -- mix --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Amen to that. I remember when I praised Björk as a musician on this list when she released the Homogenic album and I got responses like: "Maybe your bitch Bjork can use some of her gazillion dollars and buy herself some testes, maybe then she'll do it herself:)" /franz At 10:59 2000-09-26 -0400, Chris Fahey wrote:

quoted 10 lines Again, the concept that Bjork might actually be a interesting musician in

>Again, the concept that Bjork might actually be a interesting musician in >her own right seems to escape some people, as if there must be some reason >to work with her besides the fact that she's a great artist (I still think >it's unconscious sexism). Regardless of who she works with, her music has a >distinct and unique sound (when she writes songs for other singers you can >hear it immediately - how many musicians can you identify simply by the >sound of a melody? Prince comes to mind ...) that clearly is her own and not >her collaborators'. In many cases her collaborators have done their very >best work with her, with most of their non-Bjork work not quite measuring up >(IMHO).

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Well, I'd love to remix bjork (naked on my floor!) I'd like to get into her laptop. I think I have a disk that work really well in her drive. ;) hahaha --AL

quoted 34 lines From: "semblance" <semblance@netzero.net>

>From: "semblance" <semblance@netzero.net> >To: "IDM Mailing List" <idm@hyperreal.org> >Subject: RE: [idm] Bjork's Laptop >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:23:19 -0500 > > > bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration: > > 1) she is very imaginitive and experimental ... much more likely to >allow > > an electronic artist do something off-the-wall than, say, Madonna -- who > > gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer like > > William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of doing > > something really creative. > >umm, not to be nit-picky...and not that i actually enjoy madonna's >music, but didn't she get Funkstorung on her latest album? or am i >pulling this out of my ass? > >though, even if Madonna did work with Funkstorung on this occasion, >Bjork is, still, '_much more likely_ to allow an electronic artist >do something off the wall'... but don't count Madonna out, is all >i'm saying. > >semblance >(Jesus cured lepers, you often not. Jesus did not, however, > cure leprosy.) >_______________________________________________ >Why pay for something you could get for free? >NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email >http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Arnold Layne wrote:

quoted 4 lines Well, I'd love to remix bjork (naked on my floor!)

> Well, I'd love to remix bjork (naked on my floor!) > > I'd like to get into her laptop. I think I have a disk that work really > well in her drive. ;)

Behave yourself now Syd ! Your serial cable isn't compatible with her SCSI port you dope. (geddit ? ha ha) Andrei

quoted 46 lines From: "semblance" <semblance@netzero.net>

> >From: "semblance" <semblance@netzero.net> > >To: "IDM Mailing List" <idm@hyperreal.org> > >Subject: RE: [idm] Bjork's Laptop > >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:23:19 -0500 > > > > > bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration: > > > 1) she is very imaginitive and experimental ... much more likely to > >allow > > > an electronic artist do something off-the-wall than, say, Madonna -- who > > > gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer like > > > William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of doing > > > something really creative. > > > >umm, not to be nit-picky...and not that i actually enjoy madonna's > >music, but didn't she get Funkstorung on her latest album? or am i > >pulling this out of my ass? > > > >though, even if Madonna did work with Funkstorung on this occasion, > >Bjork is, still, '_much more likely_ to allow an electronic artist > >do something off the wall'... but don't count Madonna out, is all > >i'm saying. > > > >semblance > >(Jesus cured lepers, you often not. Jesus did not, however, > > cure leprosy.) > >_______________________________________________ > >Why pay for something you could get for free? > >NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email > >http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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Don't forget to add Mira Calix into that sauce.. mmmmmm -----Original Message----- From: audax@mb.sympatico.ca [mailto:audax@mb.sympatico.ca] Sent: None To: idm@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [idm] Bjork's Laptop Grrrrrr! Now I have to endure 2 more hours of work thinking about a Bjork/Andrea Parker sandwich. Damn you all to hell! VectorAudax ---------------------------------------------- oh my... this is a new low. can't we go back to arguing about arguing? :) plus, andrea parker looks sooo much better than bjork. "pam anderson, your mother's at the front door...." a. ----- Original Message ----- From: Drusca <andrei@world.std.com> To: <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: RE: [idm] Bjork's Laptop

quoted 5 lines On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Arnold Layne wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Arnold Layne wrote: > > > Well, I'd love to remix bjork (naked on my floor!) > > > > I'd like to get into her laptop. I think I have a disk

that work really

quoted 3 lines well in her drive. ;)

> > well in her drive. ;) > > Behave yourself now Syd !

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oh my... this is a new low. can't we go back to arguing about arguing? :) plus, andrea parker looks sooo much better than bjork. "pam anderson, your mother's at the front door...." a. ----- Original Message ----- From: Drusca <andrei@world.std.com> To: <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: RE: [idm] Bjork's Laptop

quoted 5 lines On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Arnold Layne wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Arnold Layne wrote: > > > Well, I'd love to remix bjork (naked on my floor!) > > > > I'd like to get into her laptop. I think I have a disk that work

really

quoted 19 lines well in her drive. ;)

> > well in her drive. ;) > > Behave yourself now Syd ! > > Your serial cable isn't compatible with her SCSI port you dope. > (geddit ? ha ha) > > Andrei > > > > >From: "semblance" <semblance@netzero.net> > > >To: "IDM Mailing List" <idm@hyperreal.org> > > >Subject: RE: [idm] Bjork's Laptop > > >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:23:19 -0500 > > > > > > > bjork has several things going for her in terms of collaboration: > > > > 1) she is very imaginitive and experimental ... much more likely to > > >allow > > > > an electronic artist do something off-the-wall than, say, Madonna --

who

quoted 1 line gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer

> > > > gets accolades for working with a played out muzak-techno producer

like

quoted 1 line William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of

> > > > William Orbit and basically just restates electro/house instead of

doing

quoted 25 lines something really creative.

> > > > something really creative. > > > > > >umm, not to be nit-picky...and not that i actually enjoy madonna's > > >music, but didn't she get Funkstorung on her latest album? or am i > > >pulling this out of my ass? > > > > > >though, even if Madonna did work with Funkstorung on this occasion, > > >Bjork is, still, '_much more likely_ to allow an electronic artist > > >do something off the wall'... but don't count Madonna out, is all > > >i'm saying. > > > > > >semblance > > >(Jesus cured lepers, you often not. Jesus did not, however, > > > cure leprosy.) > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Why pay for something you could get for free? > > >NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email > > >http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > > >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > > > > > > >

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