From thatcat Sent Sun, May 17th 1998, 23:40
On 05/17/98 17:25:30 you wrote: >Ha ha :-) Common problem : I have that every time I cough my way >through "Autechre" (does that mean anything, btw?) it means "these two guys from the uk who make fucking wicked music". >Funkstorung comes frm the German (should have an Umlaut on the o, >those two little dots) and roughly means something like 'interference >in transmission'. "Funk" coming from "Funken" (spark) and is used to >denote radio or wireless in general. Thus Funkstorung could loosely >mean radio interference. Sorry, but I won't try a phonetic >pronounciation guide. actually funk is a reference to the english word funk. stoerung means distortion (or interference, i suppose) so it's sort of funk-distortion or funky distortion. pronunciation? funk (like in english)-shtow (an american approximation, it's hard to say an umlauted letter unless you've studied the german language)-roong. sort of. np: metic "saurus" "a dream is worth a thousand pictures, the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."