[idm] funny? ... how am I funny? ... like a clown? .. do I amuse you?
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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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