Re: [idm] funny? ... how am I funny? ... like a clown? .. do I amuse you?
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Which is rather ironic, because most of the Kraftwerk's lyrics are a completly silly.
Disclaimer: I'm a huge Kraftwerk fan, not someone starting a flame.
Rob
www.componentrecords.com
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From: Jimenez, Enrique <EJimenez@Hasbro.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:11 PM
Subject: [idm] funny? ... how am I funny? ... like a clown? .. do I amuse you?
quoted 40 lines Nick Zavriev wrote:> Nick Zavriev wrote:
>
> "Senor Coconut
> Atom Heart's latino-style project. The latest album is a tribute to
> kraftwerk: full of mambo, samba,
> cha-cha-cha etc. covers of classic Kraftwerk songs. No IDM at all, but very
> nice and funny."
>
> and I say:
>
> One of the problems Atom Heart had with Kraftwerk, upon the release of "El
> Baile Aleman" in the US and EU was that Kraftwerk felt that the version of
> "Radioactivity", which is included in the Japanese version, was TOO FUNNY.
> This infuriated Atom Heart, because he felt that Kraftwerk took this snobby
> attitude of judging latin american music as being funny. So how can music
> from another culture, Atom felt, be considered as funny, when the music is
> actually positive, exotic maybe, warm and definetly "alegre" (happy), but
> never funny in the ha ha ha kind of way. Atom Heart thought that it would
> be ridiculous to sue them on the grounds of this first world super group
> denying permission for a latin band from the third world to cover one of
> their songs because Ralf and Florian think that latin american music is
> funny. Totally ridiculous. Of course Kraftwerk denied permission to release
> this track to the rest of the world and poor Atom had to agree to this,
> otherwise these fine album might have never been released. Of course, it
> makes sense now, they are the robots!!!!.
>
> Its like me, a latinamerican from Tijuana, saying that Autechre music is
> funny because the beat skips or that some Oval sounds like a damaged CD:
> "Ha ha ha, the CD sounds like its damaged, its hilarious ... ha ha ha, I
> cant help but laugh ... oh god please make it stop ... its so funny ... that
> clicky sound ... ha ha ha"
>
> saludos,
>
> ejival
>
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