I couldn't disagree more. What I hear in pusher?s new works is the heart of jazz, but in new terms. Instead of trying to emulate acoustic jazz as live musicians play it ei. Sampling jazzy horns and such he's gone to the next degree. Pusher's taken the concept of jazz and adapted it to his instrument (the computer). What?s the point of trying to make something sound acoustic when it's electronic? It makes no sense. If you're going to make that kind of music do it with live musicians playing instruments, not with a laptop. Pusher?s new stuff pushes the envelope of what music is. He?s not concerned with what music was in the past, and that?s why it can be so hard to take, but that?s also why it?s so important to pay attention to. Electronic music is a new form of expression; it?s a shame to put that newness to waist by using it to express old concepts.
Go plastic is one of the best albums of all time. And that's that!
-charles
www.mp3.com/groundchuckles
Kurt <supine@pendulous.org> wrote: the most recent stuff I find painful...it's kind of like he was
really on fire when he went off into his jazzoid Music is One Rotten
Note thing....and then he got a lot of shit for it, so he came back
to acidy breakbeat but with this begrudging, cynical attitude. like
he wants to maintain the audience he initially attracted and is even
willing to compromise to keep it, but the price is eating at his soul.
Kurt <supine@pendulous.org> wrote:
the most recent stuff I find painful...it's kind of like he was
really on fire when he went off into his jazzoid Music is One Rotten
Note thing....and then he got a lot of shit for it, so he came back
to acidy breakbeat but with this begrudging, cynical attitude. like
he wants to maintain the audience he initially attracted and is even
willing to compromise to keep it, but the price is eating at his soul.
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