At 08:32 PM 6/6/97 -0400, KaisrSolze@aol.com wrote:
quoted 8 lines For a decidedly different perspective on many of idm's favorites, go to
>For a decidedly different perspective on many of idm's favorites, go to
>http://members.aol.com/blissout/sr2.htm
>Simon Reynolds writes for various decent papers, etc, and has been behind
>techstep for quite a while. He's a relatively intelligent, or at least
>thoughtful guy. Check his view on Squarepusher. I don't agree with Mr.
>Reynolds, but we seem to get stuck in a rut on this list from time to
>time(except for the Black Dog Droid, who likes to piss on the party on
>occasion).
Read closely and you'll find Mr. Reynolds is constantly contradicting
himself - perhaps a symptom of wanting to be simultaneously trendy and
bleeding edge. For instance, he pisses on Squarepusher for daring to
threaten the orthodoxy of drum & bass by bringing in techno elements,
while also claiming that he's been wishing for years that
ambient/intelligent jungle & intelligent techno could cross-pollinate (see
the Breakbeat Science blurb). He rails on about jungle's
gentrification/muzak-isation, but woe be to him that rebels against the
sameness created by the ultra-insular "scene" which he finds being a
member of so necessary to establish the credentials of anyone making
jungle. (and why DOES he insist on calling it jungle, anyway?) He slams
Jockey Slut for "Detroit-pietism", while dropping the name of Suburban
Knight on his year's best, not because Suburban Knight really did anything
last year (or for that matter, in the last 5 years), but because he felt
the need to display his own piety.
Enjoy the wordplay, but don' take it seriously.
Che