Blimey if you didn't catch me ignoring this new record!
If you don't listen to it, it sounds great! If One doesn't buy it, One may buy something else! Blindly, even!
Ach, they all fall down in the end, don't they? - Eno oinging Paul Simon, Aphids Twin(k), Broads of Canasta, etc.. Rather messy and embarrassing. I'd rather look away than watch the final bounce, splat.
Kinda makes one wonder if the products and advancements of Art, like Science, are mostly due to the randomness of accidents, lack of sleep, drugs/poisoning, and/or mental illness...(Not that I'm saying that musicians who 'fall down' have been or are taking drugs, mentally ill or anything other than 100% normal and healthy, even if they usually aren't; I'm not saying that, nor am I saying that after an artist's early accidents and/or experiments, they are less and less likely to produce anything interesting.) If you don't agree, take all of yours and your family's money down to your local casino and try winning at Roulette - it's the same - you might hit it, buy mostly you won't. But don't feel bad, a lot of people with no talent and no inspiration never even get to play! I'm not saying that Beards of Costanza are not talented, even though that might agree with current sentiments among those who 'call the shots'. I'm just saying that maybe someone else needs to step up and figure out the next new money-loosening noise. It could even be me (in disguise) - or you!
-- Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
So how come no-one's been banging on about how cool'n'groovy /
boring-old-farty, enrapturing / snooze-inducing, fresh'n'wild /
same-old-same-old 'Trans Canada Highway' is?
Could this be a sign of an IDM cultural climate change, indicating that
IDM-peeps are no longer hanging on their every note or enigmatic squiggle
to impute strange significances?
I mean... what's the point of subscribing to this list if a guy can't get a
mailbox full of people inchoately slavering over/whining about the latest
emissions of their idols?
Tsk. Call yourself an IDM-list - IDM SchmyDM...
OK, you need someone to start the ball rolling, is that it? Right. 6
tracks: 1 you know, 'Dayvan Cowboy', as per the album (did you check that
video? Yeah, video of guys surfing. Cool. If you like surfing, that is. If
you don't. Not so cool. Last track is a remix by Odd Nosdam of the
aforementioned track - a 9 minute oddyssey (geddit?) that traipses
distractedly between some sort of smack-ambient noodle and hypno-drone-hop
semi-propulsion with gaps in between, like he got bored and went off to
make a cuppa and left the record button on (he did? aah.. *cool*). All very
um... *odd*... In between there are '4 new tracks' none of which sound that
new, but they're all OK. Bit like the album, really. You probably heard
'Skyliner' at bleep.com and it got you mildly aroused if not entirely
creamed.
Will that do to kick us off? OK, I know it's not Lester Bangs or Ian Penman
or Kodwo Eshun, but hey... you got no excuse now. And don't give me that
coy sh|t about release dates. You've got an internet connection haven't
you... don't pretend you haven't already downloaded the whole thing P2P and
proudly burnt it for all your mates. Yes, you there...
alan
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Alan Lockett (Senior Language Co-ordinator - EFL)
Language Centre, University of Bristol,
30-32 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol, BS8 1PY, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 3310914 e-mail: Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk
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