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Re: [microsound] glitch musicians need to party more!



The only questions I have are:

1. isn't Static taking up some of the slack in this territory in SF. 

2. why aren't you doing anything about it?

DIY, it isn't just for punks anymore. 

take care, 
Mike Taylor


Josh
> 
> Alas I fear he may be serious.  It is does seem to be the case at least in
> San Francisco that if one wants DJ groupies, house and trip-hop and (gasp)
> anthemic Eurotrance will magnetize them much more quickly than will
> glitchscapes or blipbeats - or for that matter than will "IDM" or organic
> ambience or dub or krautrock or academic music or shawm solos or dan tranh
> recordings or old Taiwanese pop or just about anything else I might
> actually want to hear in a club.  There IS a reason this music is almost
> never heard in this city, even though we have plenty of musicians making it
> and - from the look of the record racks - plenty of "pencil neck geeks"
> buying it, apparently in lieu of sex.  (I can picture the article in The
> Wire:  "Will the Digital Aesthetic Ruin your Sex Life?")  But perhaps there
> is a confusion of terms:  could "minimal shit" be remedied with a higher
> fiber content in the diet?
> 
> np - Autopoesies fashion show
> 
> joshua maremont / thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> boxman studies label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/
> 
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