what interested me about the recent thread was
1. the presentation of aphex as a pro-music biz "musician" (to an extent)
whose "only releasing accessible stuff" is cited alongside the beatles' and
dylan's and all them fucking things's's's' arsing about (or even maybe
perhaps though its remote) "innovating" in the studio and then saying "it'll
never sell". (p.s. backwards strings tapeloops all that nonsense they did on
the whitey album was done before by eg can and pierre henry (well, probably!
;)) and moondog. i always get the impression of aphex as a sort of
mischeivious nihilist - i think that for him, as for most people on this
list, making music is a compulsion got from god knows where, and if one can
be lazy and fuck about with things and make money and explore create in a
way dependent on finance then why the fuck not? it's not as if aphex (mr.
nihilist in my head, remember) has a social conscience, and very often
that's all the better for our ears - but:
2.
quoted 2 lines Maybe the money and
> Maybe the money and
> the company's dealings with the artists is demeaning to the individuals,quoted 2 lines that doesn't change the end result. Since we are all talking about Miles
> that doesn't change the end result. Since we are all talking about Miles
> Davis, I'm going to go ahead and ask: when you listen to "Kind of Blue",quoted 2 lines you hear the sound of Columbia's corporate greed coming through your spe
> you hear the sound of Columbia's corporate greed coming through your spe
> akers, or some of the most beautiful and amazing jazz ever recorded