Re: [microsound] sad songs

[Tone0010@xxxxxxx]

This whole thing about "sadness" and "darkness" seems to me to be waaay off 
the point when talking about certainly the power-electronics field but also a 
lot of music that you are lumping into these larger groups, be it metal, 
industrial, what have you.
There always seems to be a lot of other weird cultural and 
post(yaaaawn)modern detritus clumped to it. People didn't chose analog and trash because it's 
angstier or angrier, they chose weird broken down stuff because of it's reto or 
contemporary or cool or uncool associations. Also it relates to primal musical 
stuff, like the resurrection of dead flesh, long ago being a turtle shell or 
antelope horn something and nowadays being a telephone or some other garbage. 
And there's a lot of other really specific cultural push and pull that people 
can't describe but can sense, stuff that will probably not survive more than 
like a decade of cultural memory or about a 500 mile geographic radius, but who 
cares what our grandkids are going to think of our music anyways. All this 
shit went down with punk too, but people seem to remember it only in terms of 
really general descriptions like "angry."
Also, mr. Wolf Eyes and their label isn't noise guy, didn't Kevin Drumm 
record for both Mego and the American Tapes/Wolf Eyes label Hanson? Whether or not 
I spelled Kevin's name right just now, you have to agree that it's noise. So 
there.