Jon Hassell

luka

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but i can understand and appreciate the move in the abstract. i just can't stand the feel of the real thing against my skin.
 

version

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padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I'm sure you've seen the New Age "revival"
that's been going on for awhile now. that big compilation on Light In the Attic that came out like 7 or 8 years ago.

unlike a lotta things that get dug up and revived, New Age has always had a commercially successfully niche. it was just the antithesis of cool.

it's not just about smoothness, it was also uncool in the nerdy prog sense. Jean-Michel Jarre, Kitaro, all the terrible Berlin School synth music.

even the dug up stuff is, in my opinion, mostly terrible. as a good rule of thumb, the later you go in time - toward the later 80s - the worse it's likely to be.

some of the later Popol Vuh stuff is alright, but Florian Fricke was always kind of just his own thing
 

luka

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it's like when you talk to a company representative and can't forge any human connection. they use the guidebook and company policy to short circuit any possibility of rapport.
 

luka

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and of course smile as they do so. this is the kind of experience smoothness soundtracks.
 

version

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There are ASMR clips where people pretend to be secretaries or on the desk at a hotel. Yet another layer.
 

eleventhvolume

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fwiw I'm also a massive non-fan of Eno post-Taking Tiger Mountain - very strong case for the most overrated musical figure of the last 50 years

and before I forget, "street hassell" is the first time I've ever actually enjoyed a thread tag, kudos to whoever came up with it

Hah, agree about the Reed reference. And sounds like we have very different views of music as I'm a big fan of much of Eno up 'til the mid '80s. I wonder about our relative ages and the fact that this music was what I heard in my late teens and there've been various reports about neurology and formative development of music tastes at that age. My early teen listening - apart from Kraftwerk - was Foxx, Tubeway Army and the like, which I still love, but never listen to nowadays whereas Hassell and to a lesser extent Eno's music has continued to nourish me in my adult life.
 
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