Fair enough. To me, your post just sort of rubbed me the wrong way, most
probably a misinterpretation.
vzaem
ps.: anyone heard that new hip-hop joint by some prick who tries to render
the entire history of the world as driven by white fuck-ups and psychoses
and african perfection? And he then proceeds to keep reiterating the
epiphany of his that the "white gene is recessive" so that by 2050, he says,
everyone will be brown. I hate that type of shit just as much as white
racist metal. One of the Djs playing it on the radio was actually
advocating the track and hailing it as truth.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SHADETEk Records [mailto:shadetek@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:02 PM
> To: vzaem@humbledesign.com
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: [idm] timbaland et al. (warning: flame bait)
>
>
> >
> >fine. but by the same token, all your "roots" have *their*
> roots in other
> >and older musics. Musics like funk, disco, jazz, blues, jubilee,
> >ragtime...
>
> <snip>
>
> This is certainly logically true although this is the only way I
> can state
> what is to me a readily observable pattern. Part of the use of
> this for me
> is to observe a pattern of proliferation of derivative styles and in that
> proliferation a watering down (or perhaps conscious subtraction)
> of elements
> which I enjoyed in the original. Influence is certainly a
> complex thing to
> chart though. To me, in my opinion, one of the essential
> characteristics of
> earlier autechre was a heavy influence from funk and funk derived dance
> musics which placed an emphasis on strong repetition juxtaposed with
> variation in their rhythm sections. While many of those
> influenced by them
> took only the variation aspect from this and produce music which
> aspires to
> constant non-repetitiveness thus moving sharply away from a danceable or
> even head-noddable format. An example for this for me is Richard
> Devine who
> I do not think is bad, actually very skilled and devoted producer
> but I find
> that his emphasis on overwhelming non-repetitive detail makes his
> music lean
> too heavily towards the cerebral rather than more primitively
> enjoyable side
> of the musical spectrum for me to listen to with any great regularity. I
> certainly respect this aspiration but I also certainly do not
> want to listen
> to it on my headphones when walking around, while I especially
> enjoy AE in
> this way.
>
> peace,
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