quoted 9 lines at the risk of being blunt, the whole dsp/noise scene with kid606 as>> at the risk of being blunt, the whole dsp/noise scene with kid606 as
>> its poster child is an overrated fad, fed on the pseudo-punk image of
>> the artists and not much more. only white college-age kids can make
>> hip-hop unlistenable and get pats on the back from pop culture rags. it
>> may be sound or noise, but it's not music any more than my aging
>> refrigerator condensor's decaying, chaotic whine at three in the
>> morning is music.
>
> Why is it that white college kids are always making fun of white college
kids? This is something I can never understand.
uh..and Kid606 isn't even a college kid.
but what i'd really like to know is, who is "the whole dsp/noise scene with
kid606 as its poster child"? is it Mego/Mille Plateaux/etc & the European
glitch noise guys, or Schematic/RKK/Tigerbeat6/etc & the American dsp
fuckery scene? because there's a giant difference. I haven't really heard
much "dsp/noise" that doesn't have a lot of trappings of conventional music
(beats, maybe a melody) coming out of the US except for some of the
Schematic's more experimental stuff, and I was under the impression that
Reynolds was all enamored with that catalog.
and I also love how Reynolds is *against* "music that's not music" but is he
also disparaging of "pop culture rags."
ie, "Make listenable, semi-conventional music, but don't make it so well
that it will be popular!"
-rk
ps: I also love how I called Alex Reynolds "Reynolds" as if I were his gym
teacher.
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