RE: [microsound] machine soul: oxymoron?

[Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*sigh*.  
I'm so very tired of Salon -- they've always gotta work an angle.
Muckraking is good and alive, thank the lord.
So what do we have in this article? 
The misconception that "rave" = "electronic dance music"
The setting up of a straw man -- "rave" purported to be revolutionary, but
look!  it failed, therefore is a bankrupt medium (all you techno musicians
on the list please take note:  you might as well just give it up now)
The complete and total exclusion of the possibility that FORM counts for
anything

What's Golberg's usual slant?  She's a familiar name, but somehow I feel
like she usually writes pieces on mainstream electronic musicians.  In fact,
I'm pretty sure that's her forte.

Reminds me of Michiko Kakutani's column from the NY Times Magazine a few
years back, when "electronica" and the Chem Bros had their big boom; she
accused it of being "cold" and "antihumanist."  A pretty hilarious article,
really.  Goldberg doesn't exactly fall into the same trap, but her reasoning
seems just as specious...


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