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nomos

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i have to say the piece on mark stewart is shit. its a prime example of interviewer ramping up their own POV regardless of what the interviewee has actually said. and i'm not anti k-punk, but crikey, i was cringing reading the article.

mark's other reviews in the issue were good, as was his burial piece, so i hope it was an aberation.

haven't seen this issue but i felt some of that reading the underground resistance piece. i don't know UR that well but the marxist analysis attributed to them sounded more like mark's blog than anything i've heard in the music. otherwise a very good piece, especially the sonic fiction discussion, but it seemed to break his cardinal rule against speaking for the music.
 

mms

sometimes
haven't seen this issue but i felt some of that reading the underground resistance piece. i don't know UR that well but the marxist analysis attributed to them sounded more like mark's blog than anything i've heard in the music. otherwise a very good piece, especially the sonic fiction discussion, but it seemed to break his cardinal rule against speaking for the music.

wel writers that are good apply ideas to music, what did you want a discussion of the synths they use or something - also parts of what he said were readily backed up with facts and discussion.
 

nomos

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wel writers that are good apply ideas to music
well obviously. and i'd hardly be one to argue that a writer shouldn't engage music conceptually/theoretically.

, what did you want a discussion of the synths they use or something
:p no just midi transcriptions and a genealogy of influences

- also parts of what he said were readily backed up with facts and discussion.
possibly, i'd have to go back to it. but i had a distinct feeling after reading that, at times, he was putting his blog posts in mad mike's mouth. that's different. it can be subtle, but there's a line. seems to me that's exactly the sort of gripe that ccru/eshun had with british cult studs.

anyway, i'm not saying it dominated the piece - which, as i said, was very good - but it was lurking in the corners
 

childrentalking

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anybody else notice that a particularly overwrought line from Fisher's Mark Stewart interview made it into Pseuds Corner in the current issue of Private Eye? Well done.
 
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