Group Listening Party Fun Time II: Craner vs. Craner
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craner
Beast of Burden
1993.
I have a soft spot for Underground Software, which dates back to the magical second hand haul of Reinforced Records 12”s that happened to me in More Music in Swansea in 1994. Among all the classics I picked up was the ‘Music Maker Posse’ EP, which I LOVED.
This is one of their good tunes and has all that I like in their sound: an off-kilter, skittish, roughly-cut assemblage of rhythms and samples and melodies, something that sounds more roughly hewn, randomly put together and sloppily layered than 4 Hero or Nookie, but is as effective in its own way and on its own terms. The sound is hostile and uncompromising but also, like the Kreamcicle track, laced with the poetry and romance of the city, in this case London in the early ‘90s, a city alive with sound and still full of unclaimed space and hidden lives and adventure and possibility. This music makes me think of all of that and miss it.
I have a soft spot for Underground Software, which dates back to the magical second hand haul of Reinforced Records 12”s that happened to me in More Music in Swansea in 1994. Among all the classics I picked up was the ‘Music Maker Posse’ EP, which I LOVED.
This is one of their good tunes and has all that I like in their sound: an off-kilter, skittish, roughly-cut assemblage of rhythms and samples and melodies, something that sounds more roughly hewn, randomly put together and sloppily layered than 4 Hero or Nookie, but is as effective in its own way and on its own terms. The sound is hostile and uncompromising but also, like the Kreamcicle track, laced with the poetry and romance of the city, in this case London in the early ‘90s, a city alive with sound and still full of unclaimed space and hidden lives and adventure and possibility. This music makes me think of all of that and miss it.
craner
Beast of Burden
It does, and yet there it was, on the most sophisticated hardcore label of all. But then, 4 Hero were also Tom and Jerry, which was transcendent idiot collage.
craner
Beast of Burden
That's why I laid down my ground rules.
craner
Beast of Burden
I think Calvin is a genius and if he had to leave Scotland and England, go to LA, get a decent haircut, a stylist and personal trainer in order to fully realise his genius, then I do not begrudge it in any way (if Simon Reynolds can do it, why not Calvin?).
I don’t know if this is the culmination of his talent, as he has made more iconic tunes and there is surely more to come, but I think it’s one the perfect products of its time. He transforms Dua into an unattainable, mysterious, flickering muse, a locus of contemporary desire, filtered through screens and software.
This doesn’t necessarily kill the reality of feeling, it simply reflects the filters that transform the way feelings are framed, encountered, understood: the feelings here being romantic longing and physical yearning. This song is a perfect encapsulation of the new phenomenology of desire: immediate, transparent, captured and even enslaved by the surface, but as deeply felt and difficult as emotion and lust have ever been.
I don’t know if this is the culmination of his talent, as he has made more iconic tunes and there is surely more to come, but I think it’s one the perfect products of its time. He transforms Dua into an unattainable, mysterious, flickering muse, a locus of contemporary desire, filtered through screens and software.
This doesn’t necessarily kill the reality of feeling, it simply reflects the filters that transform the way feelings are framed, encountered, understood: the feelings here being romantic longing and physical yearning. This song is a perfect encapsulation of the new phenomenology of desire: immediate, transparent, captured and even enslaved by the surface, but as deeply felt and difficult as emotion and lust have ever been.
craner
Beast of Burden
Fuck 'em. We can party for all of them.
luka
Well-known member
it's not a million miles away from the dumbest euro pop of the 90s but its more self aware. difference between Next and Top Shop.