<< i had an idea for some artists if they were interested.
it's nothing new, and it might be a stupid idea,, i really wouldn't know
right now.
but i was thinking it'd be nice to make an entire comp, of artists creating
good music, but sampling music they really hate.
shit like old 80's stuff like warrent and new bubblegum shit that's on the
radio....>>
I'd like to submit some material for this project. There isn't much music
that I truly hate...I've even come around to opera and country.
But to go with the eighties cheez-metal idea...recently, there's been an ad
on tv hawking a monster assortment of collected "Power Ballads" from 80's
metal bands...all those shrieking mega-compressed cheez dramas with
mind-numbingly lame lyrical content (we won't even mention the inevitable
screechy, overplayed guitar solo).
So, I might have to order that sucker just for this purpose. That, and
Britney Spears, and The Backstreet Boys, are totally ripe for some kind of
insane deconstruction.
Along these same lines, the treatment given to Celine Dion's hit single from
the Titanic, from the Extracted Celluloid compilation on the Illegal Art
label, is deliciously disturbing. This version, with the
disembodied/deconstructed voice of Celine howling through layers of warped
murk and creepy strings, truly evokes the emotions of ghostly undersea horror
(unlike the original). See
http://www.detritus.net/illegalart/ for more info.
On the kumquat front: I've just sent out another wave of free kumquat cd's
to those who e-mailed me recently...check your mailbox this week.
Scot Gelinas was kind enough to review kumquat for the skinny. Check it out
at
http://www.skinny.com/music/reviews/
By the way, (faint whiff of cross-promotion in the air), the Pole feature
currently on the skinny site is definitely worth examining...the concert
photos allow one to learn things about Stefan that you might not otherwise
know. For example, he seems to be using a DigiTech Studio Quad effects unit.
Also, he appears to have a bottle of Rolling Rock with him on stage.
- Fred Church
bigkumquat@aol.com
http://www.thelocus.com/kumquat
np: 3 Kung Fu Pieces, from Extracted Celluloid (whizzing kung fu action
samples)