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Re: [microsound] take the red pill?



"Surprisingly, microhouse isn't (so far) a particularly New York-specific
subgenre. While the people making the stuff come from all over (London,
Montreal, Chile), the genre's (can't quite call it "scene" 's) capital is
Germany's second cities: Cologne (home of the Kompakt and Perlon labels),
Hamburg (Poker Flat), and Frankfurt (Force Inc.). Nevertheless, microhouse'=
s
sonic strategy, with voluptuous asceticism playing between gummed-up beats
and up-top tics'n'timbres, form fits the confines of the smaller spaces tha=
t
have become the sad face of NYC clubbing post-Giuliani. Imagine lounge musi=
c
with the seams showing."

--. why I love and hate NYC all at once: can't see past their own
city-of-the-world BS for the life of them. Also no mention of Montr=E9al.

tV

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