i'll be the eightieth person to mention the
words namedrop.
the first band that i ever identified with was
nirvana,
like many of you, i'm sure... though strangely no one
has mentioned it. i can't listen to them anymore
though because i don't like that kind of nostalgia...
it had its time and its place but there's too much
baggage and sad feelings and all that rot.
from there i found sonic youth and i kind of worked
the no wave vein a bit and then figured out what they
were influenced by so i got some can and neu and faust
and some 70's punk and glam stuff... then i got into
dub from the clash album sandinista... mixed in with
all this stuff were things like bjork, talking heads,
my bloody valentine, sun ra, alice coltrane, pavement,
pixies, lots and lots of indie rock, and some abstract
jazz here and there... i've still got much love for
some of the west coast chronic-era hip hop i loved
back then... i think it's way too hard to encapsulate
all the music that you loved into one email, let alone
remember it.
the most important albums i've ever owned:
bjork- homogenic
arvo part- tabula rasa
radiohead- ok computer
my bloody valentine- loveless
alice coltrane- ptah and the el daoud
cat power- moon pix
tortoise- millions now living...
can- future days
sonic youth- confusion is sex
and if it hadn't come out so recently that i couldn't
be sure, i'd add dntel- life is full of possibilities
to the list... ask me in 2 years... hopefully i'll
say the same thing.
i've been off and on into electronic music since
i read a review for afx's SAWII... i bought it
but didn't really /get/ it for a while... then i
bought LP5 from autechre, loved it. mostly though
i like melodic glitchy stuff now or scratchy hazy
noisy stuff like fennesz.
also, i got into mouse on mars from being a stereolab
fan...
i still listen to all kinds of stuff... in fact, since
my roommates don't really care for electronic music,
and i put them through a lot when i'm making music,
i tend to listen to a lot of jazz and indie stuff
'round the house.
gregory
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)the fawn
)"i thought when i started playing
)shows i'd meet a lot of really cool
)people, but most of the people i've
)met just want me to copy software
)for them"
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