thirdform

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like, i like a good tune as much as anyone, but sometimes i just want to hear sounds and rhythms. In a way, as it were, to make the tunes themselves stand out. Otherwise you get this thing of old man yells at cloud re internet music.
 

luka

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i would say that for me my listening since i discovered weed has been about drugs. and i've had periods when a drug got me into things that resisted me before. eg bernard parmesan on dmt, some free improv stuff on acid. xeannkis, whatever
 

luka

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but i dont sit down sober with something i dont like and try to like it, as a rule, no.
 

luka

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the one time someone asked me to make a mix i dont think it had many tunes on it as far as i can remember it had parmesan and xenannakis on it
 

thirdform

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im not presently trying to stretch my own limits tbh. im not sure you are either. you're in a holding pattern too as far as i can tell.

At the moment sure, but that's mostly cos I don't think experimental music has much left to offer me. Sonically, compositionally, whatever.
 

luka

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ok, well, maybe i think the same thing. what have i got to discover? i know everything you like. i know the morroccans and the cologne acid and the elctro-acoustic. i mean, like, i dont actually sit around listening to harry styles all day beleive it or not.
 

thirdform

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ok, well, maybe i think the same thing. what have i got to discover? i know everything you like. i know the morroccans and the cologne acid and the elctro-acoustic. i mean, like, i dont actually sit around listening to harry styles all day beleive it or not.

no sure I get that. and I wouldn't really want to convince you to like PiL cos they're very much of a moment right. I couldn't say they're timeless like King Tubby or Keith Hudson.

But I guess what I'm rebelling against is this thing in music discourse of all positive value judgments centring around a teenyboppers idea of fun and all other emotions are made (if not surplus) then secondary to this fun impulse. It's actually weirdly phallic, despite many poptimists being women. Although there's a straightness, a heterosexuality to it for sure.
 

luka

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i dont actually think that though do i? i, like everyone else in the world. have a multifaceted personality, and sometimes i cant be arsed, and sometimes i can
 

thirdform

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like I find it funny when people say dubstep or techstep is dour (esp those who try to merge Reynolds with Tom Ewing) because, yes, it is? Stating the bloody obvious! Maybe people find something in that dour quality?
 

thirdform

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i dont actually think that though do i? i, like everyone else in the world. have a multifaceted personality, and sometimes i cant be arsed, and sometimes i can

I never said you always think that. But it's often a way to blanket dismiss something. Like rhetorical alliteration, there are certain words which can serve as trumpcards which purport to be critical when they are anything but. Fun/excitement/pleasure are this axis in music crit.
 

thirdform

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I actually sent @blissblogger on his blog (what i consider to be) three proto-proto techstep tracks from the 92-94 era.

Here's what I wrote:

If I were to select three proto-proto techstep/neuro tunes they would probably be as follows:
Sound Corp - Regen Time (part 2/sequel remix) 1992
This is very much gloomy darkside, still very nut-e, but more in the sense of the rave coughed and spat out. or an awol tape pack becoming sentient and taking lsd. You decide. Nothing like it and I don't think there ever will be in the future. Huge psychodelic space arena vibe to it as well, which you only really get with Acardipaine's works from this era.

DJ Fokus - Chill out (1993)
Stalkerish darkside, harkening back to Nebula II from a year ago, but more fixated, more militant and with a huge proto-reece bass drop. ardkore souljas hands cocked into pistols, etc. The vocoded chill out voice quite disconcerting. Very much sewage and slime. A multifaceted tune for sure, I don't want to call it 'art' but you know, mindblowing.

Vinyl Conflicts Own - deathrow (1994)
Released on the finsbury park boys Krome and Times' Tearin' vinyl, the rhizomatic Can meets Jah Shaka avant guttersnipe funk convergence you were always waiting for. Huge reverbed, flanged hall of mirror drums with a bassline that is curiously utilitarian as opposed to overtly tuneful in its execution.
 

thirdform

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@luka I actually rate you slating PiL, in a way. the soul/rnb fetish has to be kept up on this forum, without going 'soul boy' as it were. Part of the problem with most American and Aussie post-reynolds influenced critics is once they've finished what they have to say about dance music, they revert back to Indie pop.

Hence the love for diabolical and completely hideous shit like Hot Chip, Mr. Twin Sister and Soccer Mommy on our enemy forum. They want to think they get it, and they can write lengthy, sophisticated analyses (sometimes better, more thought out than ours) but the truth is they don't. For them its a bohemian deviation from an independent value set, for us it's a logical evolution/revolution of the imported street beats continuum.

Anyway that music is deeply irredeemable and bland, the worst aspects of stagnant contented white secondary school music extended into infinity.
 

thirdform

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thats probably true yes. good point.

what they see as interesting pop trends we see as the mutability of black music, it constantly bringing into question the need to exist/what constitutes blackness.

Part of their attitude is that it's totally good and fine for white pop to stop talking to black pop because muh free choice, and I think that's a quyite negative development. It's just the flipside of the soulboy coin, but this time made rock(ist) in the quite literal sense.
 
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