Mark Fell, Rian Treanor, Gabor Lazar

[soul_pill]

 

[version]

Mark Fell's publishing a book next year.

Structure and Synthesis

An anthology of pioneer sound artist Mark Fell's work charting his defiantly unorthodox thinking on time, structure, technology, and the relation between aca...

mitpress.mit.edu

 

[luka]

looks awful

 

[version]

There's nothing to look at yet!

 

[luka]

 

[luka]

it's all very cutesy isnt it. which gives it a repellently self satisfied air.

 

[luka]

i think i would say it is the worst music ever made.

 

[luka]

woops agrees with me. we were talking about this yesterday.

 

[luka]

very twee approach to rhythm that makes me feel physically sick

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

I think there's a bit of a movement of dance music that isn't really dance music at the moment. Meta and abstracted "dance" music. Obviously that's always been there but now it feels much more centre stage than on the margins.

Like a lot of the ostensibly "club" or techno-y DJs on things like NTS are playing lots of stuttering scrapey sounds instead of bangers. It's become the norm.

That Trilogy Tapes aesthetic.

I don't like it, or understand it

 

[luka]

yeah tha'ts what it is. meta is a good way of putting it. it makes me puke. sufi said he is going to delete this thread and ban all discussion of this

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

I get the feeling many of the producers are graphic designers. It has that feel about it

 

[luka]

now your speaking my language!

 

[luka]

the visual side of it is really really bad. really really really really bad.

 

[luka]

cant wait till people who like this music see this thread and feel sad that we've binned it.

 

[luka]

its like when youre waiting for someone to walk into their suprise party except its a horrible suprise

 

[luka]

big Mark Fell fan walking into the room all happy there's some Mark Fell chat. sees it, totally crestfallen. gutted.

 

[version]

i think i would say it is the worst music ever made.

Worse than dubstep and UKHH?

 

[luka]

it's a different sort of bad isn't it. it's obviously not bad in that way. they're at opposite ends of the spectrum.

 

[Leo]

I think there's a bit of a movement of dance music that isn't really dance music at the moment. Meta and abstracted "dance" music. Obviously that's always been there but now it feels much more centre stage than on the margins.

Like a lot of the ostensibly "club" or techno-y DJs on things like NTS are playing lots of stuttering scrapey sounds instead of bangers. It's become the norm.

That Trilogy Tapes aesthetic.

I don't like it, or understand it

I don't hate it but listen to very little of it, since so much is derivative. it can be interesting in a mildly abstract/experimental music sort of way.

I am puzzled why labels like TTT put this stuff out as 12" singles...how many DJs actually play these tracks in clubs (when clubs existed, anyway)? I can see albums or digital releases for home listening or radio play but how many clubs can possibly cater to this type of thing? but labels keep releasing it on 12s, so someone must be buying it.

can you imagine the club scene? bunch of mopey graphic designers in cool t-shirts swaying to a mark fell glitch for nine minutes.