Re: (idm) Ken's glass house

From s.f.w.d.
Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 03:08

>  
> >It's pretty clear that Ken was and is the Master of Dogma (and I mean that 
> >in a good way). 
> >... 
>  
> All fine and dandy, but I think you're leaning a bit too far. I liked the 
> Black Dog in its various styles and guises, some Ken's, some Andy's, some 
> Ed's, some whatever. I think Bytes illustrates very well the mix of the 
> threesome and their various stylistic leanings. Back then you could dig the 
> sometimes disparate mix of styles, just as you can now. 

The way I view it is they are three different bands... the original 
black dog, plaid and ken black dog. love the original... diverse and 
wonderful... plaid, who have some great material and then the new 
stuff (imo - falls short of pretty much everything mentioned here... 
love the clear 12" and other ealier recordings, but the warp stuff 
just failed to impress or even entertain)... then there's the current 
dog... music for adverts remains one of my favorite release since 
i've heard it. i recall ken in an interview or in a post here where 
he mentioned that he felt the new material was more a retreat to an 
earlier black dog sound... hate to disagree, but i do... music for 
adverts is ken and imo blows it all away... its diverse, has the life 
that previous black dog music held, but its got feeling that reachs 
to depths that the other material only dreamed of achieving... 
anyways, my opinion, but my point is, i find it better to simply view 
them as three seperate entities...

> As for Ken, I'm still trying to get into Music for Adverts; I'm not saying 
> that's a bad thing - it's just a really difficult album for me, but I have 
> full confidence that one day it will strike me with full force. Similar to
> the 
> way a lot of Autechre's output leaves me cold the first two dozen times -
> and 
> then I start "getting" it. Now on the other hand, the live tape was 
> immediately immaculate. 
>  
> The point being, I don't think you have to put down one camp to praise or
> like 
> the other. 

Hope it does strike you the way it does me, because its nice to get 
taken way everytime i let it spin =)

I agree, no need to put down plaid (though i probably did above)... 
everything ed and andy and ed did previous to the warp releases 
really worked well for me and gets much play here... i simply did get 
down with the new stuff, but sure they could pull off that again if 
that was what they wanted... 

 
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