Maybe Simon Reynolds is just trying to have another genre coined?
Didn't he "invent" the title "post-rock"?
Aside from that I'd argue that the west coast via artists like Kit Clayton,
John Tejada, Weir, User, Twerk & more about 2 years ago trying to push a techno
sound something akin to the Berlin Basic Channel/Chain Reaction, but in some
respects more more polished. I'm thinking of the Organised Noise Releases
http://www.manmade.com/on/
Then they all got into that DSP trickery and it all went to hell in a
handbasket... (I'm kidding... )
Prehaps the dotcom boom in San Francisco / Bay Area allowed folks who wouldn't
otherwise have been able to afford a laptop to acquire one and put it to their
own "evil purposes". In late 1999 companies issued laptops to employees like
pens and paper.
-i
--- Philip Sherburne <psherburne@jeevessolutions.com> wrote:
quoted 43 lines Sorry, but I can't resist: you can tell that you don't really
> > Sorry, but I can't resist: you can tell that you don't really
> > know much about music journalism, as the article was written
> > by Simon Reynolds -- who, love him or hate him, is one of the
> > more influential electronic-music journalists out there.
> >
> > Also, maybe you should pay attention: "this genre," in the
> > case of US (and especially San Francisco) artists like
> > Clayton, Lesser, Kid606 et al, really has very little to do
> > with Aphex & AE, much less Squarepusher. They're trying to do
> > something a bit different stylistically (and in terms of
> > "branding," seeing that they've all pretty much gone DIY
> > without much support from European labels). (I'm tempted to
> > say pull your head out of the sand: there are in fact other
> > things going on that just Aphex and AE and yes, even Squarepusher.)
> >
> > Reynolds did comment, in fact, that he tried to develop the
> > argument around this generation's differentiation from "first
> > wave" european producers, but Spin editors cut that part.
> >
> > - phil
> >
> > >Who has seen the latest issue of Spin Magazine? There is
> > an article called
> > >"Laptop Punks and Powerbook Pop" and it starts off with
> > talking about Bjork
> > >and Matmos working together on her Vespertine album. The
> > article was
> > >interesting but you could tell that the person writting the
> > article really
> > >didn't know much about the music.
> > >Apperently they interviewed Matmos, Kid606, Lesser, and
> > quoted Kit Clayton.
> > >I thought it was quite funny that they believed this genre
> > was lead by
> > >Americans when the founding pioneers where European. I
> > mean, come on, they
> > >barely mentioned AE and Aphex Twin, didn't even say anything about
> > >Squarepusher. They did however, give props to Matmos,
> > Kid606, Lesser,
> > >Blectum from Blechdom, Marumari, Kit Clayton,
> > Phthalocyanine, Hrvatski,
> > >Safety Scissors, and Cex. Imagine that.
> >
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