From Giles Ward Sent Sun, Aug 22nd 1999, 18:58
From Giles Ward Sent Sun, Aug 22nd 1999, 18:58
> 2. It suddenly dawned on me last night that > Plaid records suck balls compared to Black > Dog records.... Ed and Andy definitely can > write esthetically-pleasing music, but it > has no soul. Oh yes it does... it's just covered up in over-produced niceness. The tunes are still good. > 3. Fuck polyrhythms. As far as I can tell, > the whole Lexaunculpt/Schematic/Funkstorung/ > Chocolate Industries/whatever genre is > heinously supersaturated..... if I hear > another record that's just filtered PC > tracker beats... I'll pull my lungs out. > Great on a programming tip, for sure, but > for christ's sake I need a melody or > something... I have to say, the small amount of material in this genre I've heard, I've not been impressed with. Some of it has got melodies, but they're mostly crap. If you take away all the ticking, clicking scratchy bollocks you just get left with a tune a chimpanzee left to play with a cell-phone could come up with. > ten years from now The Wire > is going to write a 5 page article about > how this particular genre simply reflected > the burgeoning popularity of home computers > and shareware software vs. the increased > interaction and accessibility of an end > user to music distribution and promotion. > Blah fodder more like. I suppose it's better than the situation 5 or 10 years ago when music kit cost several limbs and a granny. Give it a year or two.. maybe it will settle down?? > As far as I can see, > Autechre had their three years on top, and > their output is shite now. At least Arovane, > Colongib and Richard Devine provide some > sort of relief. > > But I'll still buy jungle records. > And I'll still buy Plaid records. > And I'll still buy every Schematic record... You didn't say if you'd buy Autechre ones?