This is an interesting interview......I would like to hear his
music.........but in some ways, especially when he says:
I firmly
believe if you can't take an acoustic instrument and make people
from a
different culture butt-dance, you aren't doing shit.
he has got a point......
Maybe he just hasnt heard Stasis/Phenomyna--ha ha
O-10!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron S Michelson [SMTP:asm2+@andrew.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 12:42 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: (idm) mojo workin'
>
> From the Onion's interview with Mojo Nixon:
>
> O: Your new song, "Machines Ain't Music," says that all techno music is
> disco, "and disco sure does suck."
>
> MN: There's been a resurgence. I was at Woodstock a month ago; the radio
> station sent me up there. The Chemical Brothers and stuff--it's just
> horrendous! Horrendous.
>
> O: To you, it's as bad as disco in the '70s?
>
> MN: And it could possibly be worse. But it's equally as bad. I mean, if
> you have shit sandwiches, it's one of 'em. There's no soul; there's no
> funk. All this--what's it called, techno or somethin'?--is all just
> noise. I mean, to me, anyway. It's just disco, just bad disco.
>
> O: What are the kids getting off on, then?
>
> MN: Well, hopefully they're getting laid. And hopefully, they're on
> something. 'Cause from my perspective, you've gotta be on something to
> listen to that crap. They had these raves going on. Rave music sounds
> like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies. It
> was all kind of minor-key and ethereal and somewhat ominous in a light
> way. That's what it sounded like to me. I about went berserk. I firmly
> believe if you can't take an acoustic instrument and make people from a
> different culture butt-dance, you aren't doing shit.
>
>
>
> Aaron
> np: a shit sandwich from King Britt and Sylk 130 (Season's Change)