On Sat, 6 May 1995, Rosalie Ball wrote:
quoted 4 lines Worst Warp release - Black Dog 'Bytes' other than the genius first track> > Worst Warp release - Black Dog 'Bytes' other than the genius first track
> > this album bites. (i can feel the heat comin)
> >
> > pm
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quoted 7 lines I DONT THINK THE WORLD PARTICULARLY CARES IF YOU APPRECIATED BYTES>
> I DONT THINK THE WORLD PARTICULARLY CARES IF YOU APPRECIATED BYTES
> AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE DID.PERHAPS "YOU" NEED TO LISTEN TO IT A
> FEW MORE TIMES.THIS CHEAP PROVOKING OF PEOPLE MAY BE EFFECTIVE BUT
> THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION IS THAT YOU EITHER DONT KNOW WHAT THE
> FUSS IS ABOUT OR YOUR NOT SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN MUSIC FROM THE
> SOUL\EXPERIENCE FIELD.
I recently programmed, tweaked, and generally sweated profusely over a
606, 101, and 303 I had all set up and going while an experienced dj
mixed from Kraftwerk's "The Mix" into the first track on the 'BYTES'
album, and the dancefloor started to clear out. That track is totally
more interesting and FUNKY than 4OTF 909(or R8) and 303 acid, yet nobody
dances to IDM. Goes to show that the crowd at the Garden in Portland
(Oregon) doesn't know shit from bathwater.
I get the feeling that this non-4OTF idm-ish stuff is "nerd"-music as my
dj-friend puts it. Hey, I'm proud to be a nerd/geek/whatever, but why
can't the dorks on the dancefloor get into anything that isn't
ultra-simple and constructed on
4verses - drums-change - 4verses - drumschange - 303'solo'for16bars - repeat
repeat - repeat - repeat - repeat - repeat
Black Dog drops doggie poos on the dancefloor and everybody is afraid to
step in it and looking bad (metaphor about dancing to IDM)
quoted 2 lines * ITS NOT ABOUT COMPLEXITY, (VALID AS IT IS), ITS ABOUT SOUL. YOU DIG?> * ITS NOT ABOUT COMPLEXITY, (VALID AS IT IS), ITS ABOUT SOUL. YOU DIG?
> * PS WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO BE NOTICED AS BEING A CHEAPSHOT?
Yeah, well hardly anyone in the club scene in PDX has SOUL it seems!
This girl came up to my friend who was dj'ing (right during the Bytes
track) in the midst of this bliss and said "can you play something
danceable?"
Duh.
David Chandler - chandler@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us (503)301-3011
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