--- Omar Hackett <Oways@msn.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines I pulled out Electro Soma last night.....some are
> I pulled out Electro Soma last night.....some are
> the tracks are just darn
> good, too damn good for those guys not to be making
> music anymore!
I really like B12's Electro-Soma, too, and Time
Tourist to a lesser extent. Sometimes I think the
desire to look for the next release by so-and-so
should maybe be interpreted as a desire to listen to
their previous work even more; often more new work is
somehow disappointing simply because what we really
wanted in the first place was just more of the same,
which we already own.
As Eggy Toast pointed out in a recent post, it's often
much better to have less music, as you spend more time
listening to what you have and really getting into it.
I have a lot of nostalgia recently for the days when
I only had a few albums, and I loved them so much.
There's something wonderful about being a teenager and
getting a new album for the first time in months,
taking it home and holing up in your room with the
headphones and falling in love with new music.
When you have less music, it's more special somehow.
You get more familiar with it. I remember when I
could pick any album out of my collection and,
listening to it, know each song and hum along with it
before it even started. There's an intimacy there
that I know at least I have lost in this time when I
can download 5-10 new albums a night (if I wanted to).
I mean, my music collection has grown to something
like over 700 CDs over the past few years, and so few
of them are as special to me as my much smaller
collection used to be.
Actually, it's been more than 800 recently, but I've
been slowly culling the mediocre (to me) stuff and
getting rid of it. I want my music to mean something
more to me again, something more than just having what
everyone else has been listening to.
I'm not saying anything about the listening/buying
habits of anyone else on this list, as I'm sure we all
have different capacities for appreciating new stuff
faster or slower than others. Some of you probably
have 2000 albums and are frighteningly familiar with
all of them.
Anyways, bringing up B12 just brought all of that out
of me because, though I only recently go Electro-Soma,
it struck me as better than much of the newer
"electro" or similar stuff that's been around. It
made me realize that, for me at least, a lot of the
fan-boy desire for new works by the artists I love
just ends up in me wasting a lot of energy looking for
new stuff to give me the feeling I got when listening
to the old stuff, when really I should just spend more
time re-listening to the old stuff.
I think I stopped making sense at the first paragraph,
so I'll stop now. Sorry :/
-Adam
PS - Thanks to Confield, I finally got into
Phthalocyanine's 25 Tracks Fer 1 Track... It's nice :)
Other stuff that's been rocking my boat lately:
Kettel's Dreim, Joseph Nothing's Dummy Variations, and
Dykehouse's Leftovers... can't wait to d/l Dynamic
Obsolescence when it comes out. Other than that,
really getting to appreciate the older stuff in my
collection again, like B12, Fuse, maybe some others -
I'll have to keep digging.
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