a few things i've recently acquired in order to drown out my neighbour's
aggravatingly horrid taste in music:
~ solenoid | metatron split 12" (omco)
the most recent omco split with cns engineering & monkey+1 had left me
quite underwhelmed, so it was a nice surprise finding out how good this
one is. both solenoid & metatron build their tunes on some solid beats,
& the result, an undescribable mixture of acid funk dub tinged idm (feel
free to sort adjectives differently) which can be played at any speed
depending on your mood, manages to reach your brain as well as your feet
~ a rare feat! please spread the word: it's time someone like solenoid
gets the attention he deserves, considering the amount of work he puts
into his music (rather than, say, MARKETING).
~ hidenobu ito, 'bedroom in the cage' 12" (n-com)
forget takemura! hidenobu ito comes off a lot more concerned with
actual beats, & his tunes are not so cutesy lamesy as his thrilljockeyed
compatriot. (btw, who wants my copy of 'meteor'?) this is a blast to
listen to: even the drill n pop tune (featuring ms. random japanese
female on vocals) which closes the plate manages to be entertaining.
~ sonic youth, 'goodbye 20th century' 2*12"/2*cd (sonic youth records)
not idm by any stretch of the imagination, but i couldn't pass it up.
sonic youth have a thing for scaring me off: 'they're going to put out a
record called goodbye 20th century' says a friend. instantly i get this
vision of a cliched 2rd rehash of daydream nation (the first one being
'washing machine') with a geffen brand. but in fact this release is
throughly justified: on the course of 2 discs, sonic youth visits
academia for the first time on disc as they cover 13 songs by
contemporary music composers such as john cage, steve reich, & a bunch
more whom i don't know at all. being totally ignorant to that field of
music, it's great to see that the freeest rock band of all times decided
to get their fans some musical education for the end of the millenium.
of course the playing is flawless, & the list of guest players
(o'rourke, william winant, christian marclay...) is not to be frowned
at. if anything, get the vinyl for the 12 second cover of yoko ono's
'voice piece for soprano' by thurston & kim's 2 year old daughter coco
hayley: probably one of the most oddly touching tributes to a musical
genre too often relegated (often by its own members) as too academic for
the normal guy's taste. another point for celebration: with this
release, sonic youth continue to threaten not to be a rock band ever
again. goodbye 20th century indeed.
~ david
np: goodbye 20th century, of course!@
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