From Mxyzptlk Sent Sat, Jun 13th 1998, 00:43
From Mxyzptlk Sent Sat, Jun 13th 1998, 00:43
Jon Drukman wrote:
> Ben Coffer wrote:
> > Yeah, lets
> > take the original tune, quantize it completely and stick a "dance beat"
> > underneath.....what's the point in that? Isn't everyone doing it?
>
> if everyone were doing it as well as kraftwerk did it with "the mix", i
> would probably be a pretty happy guy.
>
> as it is, how anyone can listen to the remodeled version of The Robots
> and not think it's a pretty bitchin' track is something i just will
> never understand.
I've held my tongue long enough. Last night was the first time I'd seen the
band for 17 years and it was an experience. Kraftwerk (as someone else so
aptly put) IS *performance art*...an aesthetic and a consistent philosophy
steering the whole presentation. The sheer sterile beauty at work was lovely
and driving; cyborgism which - at points - transcends the 70s AND the
nineties. It's not that I fail to understand the criticisms of those who say
they are resting on their laurels, nor that I think that it is entirely
without merit. It's simply that what they've done is so DAMNED fine and
sounds so very good to this day.
I buy reams of what is out there in the bins and off the net. I can
listen to just about anything - whether you call it *intelligent* or
whatever. How much of the lastest wind to ruffle the curtains in the buzz
room is gonna hold up like a good deal of Kraftwerk's output? And I
wholeheartedly agree that "The Mix" has been slagged undeservedly for too
long. I'd go on to list a ream of things which would not be if K-werk would
not have preceeded them, but I don't think anyone is debating that. You may
call 'em "has beens", but I'll take that over a good deal of the emperor's
current wardrobe (even though I have a lot of his clothes in my closet).
jeff
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