thanks to the pepe braddock thread, i've just started thinking about herbert. i absolutely adore around the house and bodily functions (the latter being one of my favourite albums of all time, right up there in the top 10), have got quite a bit of pleasure from his Dr Rockit output and really admire him as a remixer.
his work as radioboy i actively don't like, however, and, after initially quite enjoying it it, the big band stuff leaves me pretty cold. i think a lot of my lack of enjoyment comes from knowing about the artist and the aims and objectives of the work.
i can't help feeling that the hailing of herbert as a great political thinker is somewhat ever-egging the pudding given that what he actually says is pretty sixth-form and not especially sophisticated. As for the his Personal Contract For The Composition of Music, while being quite interesting in a Dogme kind of way, um... well... what is the point, really, other than appealing to the worst enthusiasms of the avant-for-avant's-sake crew?
don't get me wrong, i really like a lot of what he's done, but that plat du jour project hasn't done a great deal for me at all. it's not that i don't like music that's overtly politicized, either, it's just that something seems to be missing here, it feels pretty sterile, polite and ineffectual.
his work as radioboy i actively don't like, however, and, after initially quite enjoying it it, the big band stuff leaves me pretty cold. i think a lot of my lack of enjoyment comes from knowing about the artist and the aims and objectives of the work.
i can't help feeling that the hailing of herbert as a great political thinker is somewhat ever-egging the pudding given that what he actually says is pretty sixth-form and not especially sophisticated. As for the his Personal Contract For The Composition of Music, while being quite interesting in a Dogme kind of way, um... well... what is the point, really, other than appealing to the worst enthusiasms of the avant-for-avant's-sake crew?
don't get me wrong, i really like a lot of what he's done, but that plat du jour project hasn't done a great deal for me at all. it's not that i don't like music that's overtly politicized, either, it's just that something seems to be missing here, it feels pretty sterile, polite and ineffectual.
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