From Adam Huffman Sent Tue, Jun 23rd 1998, 16:43
From Adam Huffman Sent Tue, Jun 23rd 1998, 16:43
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Christopher Fahey wrote: > I play squarepusher sometimes for freinds at the office - they genuinely > enjoy it, but they would never choose to listen to it on their own. Is their > appreciation of the music inferior to mine? I don't think so. Some of them > have even pointed out to me interesting things about the music I hadn't > noticed before, and actually increased my appreciation of it. > Don't normally contribute to this sort of thread, but I agree with this point. In one particularly tedious spell of employment five years ago I was playing Wire's 'comeback' EP from 1985 (can't remember the name). A generally tragic bloke commented that it sounded like punk played by musicians - which I found to be a wonderful distillation. The same week I played my copy of The Philosophy of Sound and Machine; that didn't go down very well... adam