The following is a collection of short stories...
1 - Personal track naming for me is a nightmare... If I had my way - they
would all be called Ben or me (pretentious - I know)... but then again
I only write music for myself. (Only one other person has ever heard
anything I have done). However, I am coming to the stage where a name
is essential simply for identification purposes... I will see how
long it takes (currently I only date all my music).
2 - Richard has a cynical / abusive / carefree naming convention. I suppose
the sheer volume of music that he has written has lead to this... His
earliest names are known already... analogue bubblebath, cordialotron,
human rotation, squidge in my fridge, 2 u off wax iii, labia flaps...
But later ones have gradually lost these naming conventions - he is
now obliged to give tracks names! Most of the Rephlex material has
neither a name nor an artist (only the EP name). This was done to stop
people buying a record just because it is by artist X (although the
number of people who collect AFX discographies is increasing).
3 - Grant and I produce ambulance / axident music - unreleasable but very
experimental - nauseating... Names of these tracks are purely relational
to the section of music, for example Drn's nasty potion, Naval mash,
Air smash, Breakfast got lost in the freestyle (point 3 of Jon's post).
4 - My brother names all his tracks as selectively as possible - a
combination of Todd's vowlic selection and mythological or cultural
names. (One of his older EP's was based upon Japanese culture for
instance, and his Ob-selon-minos is supposedly connected to a Greek
god). But they are all very descriptive.
I think that this genre of music encompasses a similar style of techniques in
the quest for track names. Will we see a return to classical conventions
though? (Fuse's Allegro in E minor...).
Ben (the frequency defector)
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ben middleton |
pattern avenger |
passage violator |
rephlex interceptor |
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the innovators |
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tom (tin tin - e621 global communication), grant (acid sniper queen), j jon |
lizzie + carla, ian + liz, hair (techno godess), christina + r, aphex + tha |
matt (phew), john (woolly mammouth), ashiq, kim + chantel, yanka, ruth, e w |
paul t, sven, samu, vidar, m+s posse, milton, link, intelligent dance music |
sammie, sbex, g, kelly + andrew, paul n (prototype 21), jason + issie, bob! |
smw (russ), nv, mjb, chris (sog), rwr, kt (peace), mp, laura, todd sines, t |
fluid, brian, cindy, ys, susie, allison, djkc, kirk (art), dave (fatus cat) |
ed andy ken (black dog), mike (kudos), mike dredd (!kosmik kommando), u-ziq |
chris jeffs, synectics, rephlex, evolution, mangoes, spirit levels, *truro* |