RE: [microsound] re: failure theory

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sadly... i have never listened to any of their Blec(h). but based on their
"cons" it sounds as if they are just posturing as ultra-hip and ragging on
anything which is merely only sorta hip now.

David Fodel
Publishing Systems Manager
Wild Oats Markets
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Boulder, CO 80301
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> From: 	Dr. Gozra Von Peebles
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:31 PM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	Re: [microsound] re: failure theory
> 
> I see their point, but why would they have such close
> ties with kid606?  I'm no computer music guru, but
> doesn't he more or less violate just about every no-no
> - save the one about Kim Cascone articles - listed
> below?  Maybe not the gear one either.  I don't really
> know him...
> Maybe they don't have close ties.  Hey, I'm still
> trying to digest about 90% of kid606's work, so go
> easy on me.  The whole mechanic of tb6 just seems a
> bit odd, though. 
> Also, am I the only one here who sees Mr. Laner's
> [electric company] role in things at tb6 parallel to
> the person at work who just comes in, smiles, does his
> work at his corner desk and goes home while the rest
> of the office is hung over at the water cooler?  Maybe
> I'm just reading a bit too much into the wrong
> direction of things, but I've never not enjoyed elco.
> 
> gzvp
> 
> 
> --- Andrei <andrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm not really a fan of Blectum From Blechdom's
> > music or their whole
> > esthetic (plus one of them dates Kid606 for God's
> > sake, which says a lot),
> > but I really got a laugh out of their list of "Cons"
> > in the "2001 Rewind"
> > issue of The Wire:
> > 
> > "Cons: Stupid mailing lists: (Microsound, IDM,
> > banewmus); articles by Kim
> > Cascone; minimal Techno, droney shit, boring music,
> > click-hop,
> > glitch-tronica; music without colour; people
> > obsessed with gear before
> > music; people obsessed with process before music;
> > ..."
> > 
> > // Andrei
> > 
> > 
> >
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