hi kidz,
sorry, i've had the flu and am therefore trying to
compile comments on the last 8 million digests into
one email, but..
Re:Kraftwerk, since they got discussed lots: just
thought i'd mention again the Komputer album "The World
Of Tomorrow" which came out on Mute a while back..
someone said they were London art college tutors,
which fits pretty well with my image of the kind of
people who want to be Kraftwerk (William Latham
with cords?) Anyway, Komputer is as 'tribute' as
tribute can get.
I seem to like this just as much as most Kraftwerk,
but that's cos i'm a dunderhead(tm) - but it's pretty
cool, especially "Bill Gates" (repeatx10000) - and
MTV's "Webriot" ads have been using music-clips of
"Valentina" by Komputer recently, I believe.
Also, being a UK person who's just moved to the US,
i find the difference in 'idm' listening tastes quite
fascinating. i think it's something to do with the
influences of industrial and experimental music from
the US (and, indeed, dronerock). It's very difficult
to define and i'm going to decline from nominating
any specifics because there's lots of exceptions -
but does anyone know what i mean? US idm started with
Captain Beefheart whereas UK idm started with
Dr. Alex? :)
Finally, I was reading a Hunter S. Thompson article
compilation a couple of days back and found a quote
reference (a politician?) to (slightly reworded, mind..)
"I'm No.1, So Why Try Harder?". Then I remembered that
one of Norman Cook's other bands is Freak Power (another
Hunter S. Thompson talking-point, natch..) And then, of
course, Freak Power's big single was "Turn On, Tune In,
Drop Out." You see, the technicolor drug underworld is
closer than we all think.
Unfortunately, there hasn't been much other surrealistic
drug-writing input into anything remotely 'idm' - although
there's the brilliant Justin Warfield rap dealing with William
Burroughs and "The Naked Lunch" on "Bug Powder Dust". But,
umm, I digress..
pass me the ink blotter,
h0l.
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