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xpost! repeating mark a little Is a vanguardist perspective always about desiring certain positive qualities/sources/sonictwists? What about the question of how source is twisted/fused/referenced? Or maybe this is always reducible to a subjective structural preference. For instance, the...

There seems to be an ambivalence here between the necessities of myth-making and the interesting absence of interiority. Is the problem beginning at public indifference or at the mode of manufacturing the pop itself? Or is the problem that all our enjoyment vs. public indifference is just...

takemitsu of course scored "Kaidan" which is perhaps the most accomplished asian ghost film this side of "Ugetsu." about a definition, would specifications beyond the spectral uncanny affect (anamorphic distortion, etc) be doomed to seek a causal origin for the "deferred non-origin"? to fold...

another note: i was reminded a lot about the 90s japanese artists in shibuya when blissblogger called lcd soundsystem 'record-collector' music. cornelius and them, enthusiastic people clustered in a sense of locale ("shibuya-kei") yet it was a 'knowing' pop derived from irreverence, 2nd...

there is a certain kind of popist "disregard for community" that makes me wonder about the community/population tangent here. can't this "disregard" ostensibly be enacted as a form of ruin against or at least outside the identikit community representations? which is to say it's not a disregard...

"When I discovered that by Pop music people meant "music for imaginary rather than real communities" I was depressed for about a month." I think my earliest obsessions with music grew out of adolescent projections of communities I was most certainly not a part of. It dawned that this 'real' was...

the British-Asian projecting towards black culture thing simon mentioned got me thinking about the complexity of how 'marginality' is being used in these discussions (there's something to be said about US-Asians and this tendency as well but that's another ball of yarn). jess's last point esp...

infinite piles of ipod data and infinitely more stuff which hasn't been grabbed and put on listening queue seems like it's a new kind of enthusiasm but sometimes the overflow entails this impatient attitude towards records "now its your chance to meet my pleasure/connection-feelers, dont fail"...

tokyo jihen is sadly not the best music from japan i've heard in the past six months but its okay. shiina's solo stuff is much better i think. pop-wise ive liked tommy february6 who is basically ladytron compressed into a cheerleader and friends w/ pikachu. sweets is the best girl group for the...

this is "rpm" which appeared on both the disturbing tha peace and shawnna albums (the lineup is shawnna twista and ludacris). produced by shondrae. and yes it's great.

id think that w/ the industrial/darkambientnoise circles you of course *would* want to hear this music in the middle of the night. since that's what you're supposed to do and stuff, that's the effect (though waking up in the middle of the night to anything is unpleasant enough i suppose). i...

though it's a bit tenuous to say the least to attribute narratives to music, i often wonder about the relationships between non-narrative (or anti if it must be) cinema and music. not so much stereolab titling a song 'brakhage' or such blatant projects as dj spooky's "remix" of birth of a...

i remember going to see roni size circa the 2nd album which 'boasted' a live drummer with the reprazent crew twiddling away on computers/gear alongside. as an interlude they digital-djed a string of their biggest tracks together. this ended up being the highlight of the show... the conceit of...

So.... has anybody heard We Love Guys Named Luke / Paris Hilton yet? I really liked their Output v.3 compilation track.

That organ Kelis song was produced by Dame Grease who I believe is known for his work w/ DMX. The album is a let down I agree, though I remember the closing track being pretty. On duets, right now I'm rather fond of the Usher/AliciaKeys, "My boo". Is the Utada album getting any attention at...