From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Sat, Feb 13th 1999, 13:41
From Jeremy A.Smith Sent Sat, Feb 13th 1999, 13:41
> Its been some time since the flow of good music has slowed to a trickle, > I'm looking foward to some schematic and MAS new stuff but haven't heard > over anything new coming out. > on that note, skam also seems to be taking their time as well. > > > btw > on the question of Autechre clones, > this happens with everything, one group makes a sound, others get > interested in exploring that sound as well but get labelled as clones. for > instance: Joy Division, after the death of Ian Curtis every band with the > "JD" sound were called clones or cheap copies and most of them went unseen. > 20 years later I'm digging in used record bins trying to find these clones > because they are completely valid. Bands like Crispy Ambulance, Section 25 > and ACR had their own sound, however similar it was to Joy Division it was > still an interesting take on the whole thing, In many respects I find > ACR's Too Each... a far better record than Unknown Pleasures. And at this > point LP5 seems weaker than some of the stuff coming from the clones, not > everything lasts so you should grab it while you can, in 20 years that Push > Button Objects 12" may never be found again I entirely agree, and find it rather sad that because of the 'sound' of some music, it has to be discarded by people as a 'clone'. Of course, it's about mangling someone else's sound until you come up with something new, or at least, the same but different. You get a lot of reader demo stuff on the cover CD of Future Music (British magazine which sometimes seems it exists merely to sell the newest unfinished Roland and Korg keyboards with rave reviews, like Sound on Sound), which sounds like, say, Aphex Twin or someone, and you think 'this is okay', but of course it's never quite as good as the real thing, although it stands on its own musically. Jeremy.