I don't know ... for a genre so embracing of sonic abstraction and
self-indulgence, it seems somewhat natural to engage in corresponding
visual abstraction and self-indulgence. Most CG videos may indeed be crap
... most non-CG videos are crap too. Sure is a damn sight prettier than
some wooly-hatted boffin Hi-8ing himself at a gig, but it does makes it
easy to get lazy in terms of content. Point being: CG in itself can't
really make _or_ break a video. I suppose that it will take a fundamental
shift in paradigm to stop electronic music, fast swirly colors, and high
technology from being lumped together in the "futuristic" cateogry as they
are now. Oh ... and the drugs, too.
A case in point no one seems to have mentioned is the video for Oval's "Do
While". (Not CG, but the principle's the same.) As unexciting as it is, I
thought they did a very good job of capturing the music visually, which in
my mind makes it a good video.
--Seofon
P.S. Thanks for the sample ID for "Welcome to Central Industrial ...".
And yeah, FSOL and Woob just sample the same thing; no other relation.
While we're at it, aren't the samples from "Mould" from
_Sex,_Lies,_and_Videotape_?