RE: Mutek

[Tobias <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Some questions for David...whom I got to meet
briefly in Montreal...:)

 not to mention pole & kit clayton who don't
> >usually do house even though they use some of the same sounds
> (only better).


Not to burst your bubble, but Kit Clayton comes from a strong
techno background. Check his early releases. I'm not sure why
you are calling this all house?


For example--

> >
> >i guess my point is that if you're going to play nothing but house music
> >(be it "advanced" house music *cough* like thomas brinkmann's mutek sets
> >*cough*),

Brinkmann is minimal techno...not house...two different traditions here!
Enough of a difference, I think, between house and techno to warrant
a bit more thought about it. Now Closer Music I would call house-- and
Herbert.

On another note, a full review of Mutek + interviews with Matmos, Goem,
Jetone and Tomas Jirku is forthcoming-- I will post it here, and those of
you in the pacific northwest of north america can catch it in the July issue
of Discorder. Personally I really really liked Goem as well.


> >personally, my favorite mutek show was an off-mutek event taking place
> >at the always-reliable casa del popolo with leon lo opening with a bunch
> >of entrancing, ultrarepetitive (!) loops which sounded like modern
> >classical... & no beats!

But why is this so exciting? As mentioned, Riley did this over 30 years
ago...

Perhaps there are no answers to these questions--
just some differing perspectives. I felt similar about
this year's Mutek, but one must remember that the
beat-oriented genres are the ones that have really
propelled this sort of music into the limelight.

And again, a little plug: Tomas Jirku has a live set
up in the archives at http://www.targetcicuitry.com
Check it.

cheerios,

tobias

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