@version What the fuck is funny about that? He is anti-war and he is liberal.
That's the bloody problem. There is zero African music in Cut Hands project unlike the pseudo-musicologists like zhao claimed on here way back. It's just several drum samples alternated in varying groups of 4-4, 3/4 and 3/6 (don't quote me on that last one though as I haven't listened since 2012.) The entire programming is as stiff as European tribal techno (and actually euro tribal techno can at least make people sweat in a rave whereas this just sounds like some irritating clanking.) Another strength of european tribal techno and german techno is that it's so stiff and regimented it becomes funky, whereas this is just cambridge degenerate messes around on drum machine for first time and discovers polyrhythms.
The thing is, William Bennett would actually be interesting if he was satirising the world music industry with this. If he came out and said, yes, this was a hoax. Everything was made up, my project has absolutely nothing to do with Africa, I just wanted to screw around with the experimental art milieu. I knew that any mutterings about the 'dark continent' or 'naked blacks' would provoke people, even though, once again, my music is not a meditation on these concepts whatsoever. But no. He fully believes it. He fully believes that he is actually pushing the bounds of free expression, when he is doing no such thing. It is so pathetic it makes Alice Cooper look like a Jürgen Habermas.
