quoted 2 lines What!? Kraftwerk were singing on the majority of their releases...> What!? Kraftwerk were singing on the majority of their releases...
> it's nothing new.
I know that, it's just that it is about the last thing one would expect
an artist with the past output of AFX, working in this particular type
of a modern Rephlex-techno medium, et cetera, to do. It seems that RDJ
is pushing yet another frontier, "bastardising his sound", if you will,
to pop music. On one hand, it is his own frontier he is pushing, not
frontiers in general. The music I am certain will sound like nothing
else that has been done before, true, but it will moreso sound like
something one would never expect AFX to do. That is to say he is not
doing something that has never been done before by anyone else, since as
you say Kraftwerk did it years ago, but he is creating something new by
doing such a thing in a new way. Such was the case with his Selected
Ambient Works 2 record. It was basically a Brian Eno record, but it was
a Brian Eno record that only AFX could have made, and on top of this it
was the last thing anyone would have expected AFX to ever make. It did
push boundaries, it was something that had never been done before, and
yet it wasn't. It was original and unoriginal simultaneously, but at the
very least it was completely unexpected. This is why I like AFX in the
first place, of course. I can't wait to hear this new record of his....
I am sure that, if anything, it will be... wierd. Have a wonderful
evening everyone. Happy listening. If you haven't already, listen to the
samples of the new Bochum Welt album on hyperreal. It is very well done.