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From:
Ben Diamondstein
To:
Christopher Mauldin
Cc:
Idm List
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:50:55 -0800
Subject:
Re: PITCHFORK - The Year of Electronic Music in 2015
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Yes yes and yes. I'm less interested in the music he writes about as I am the way he discusses the context in which it lives. It's odd that he pushes off of EDM to justify this stuff, but I see where his head is with everything. He's a great writer. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Christopher Mauldin <kit.mauldin@yahoo.com
quoted 1 line wrote:> wrote:
quoted 23 lines > http://www.discogs.com/Blanck-Mass-Dumb-Flesh/master/833614 > > looks more like the Matmos cover, but whatever.... > > I think we are lucky to have Philip Sherburne. such a gifted, prolific > writer and an advocate for innovative music who has managed to use big > platforms like pfork, RA, Spin, and the Wire to communicate his ideas. > > as far as the music? I think the gun-cocking, glass-breaking industrial > post-grime ballroom genderqueer vibe was OVER a long time ago. let's figure > something else out for 2016, please. > > On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in> wrote: > > I rarely take Pitchfork's opinions too seriously, and this guy is a little > too excited about Arca for my taste, but the article is interesting > nonetheless. > > > http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9776-the-year-in-electronic-music-2015/ > > >