i imagine i'll get two kinds of groans for this one
first, b/c it's another thread on lady sov
second, b/c i'm mentioning badiou in the music section = how boorish!
however, the menta remix of lady sov's "random" is one of the very few grime records i've actually purchased -- mainly b/c of serious financial constraints, but also b/c even when i do have money i tend to be buy old records, not new
but i absolutely had to have this record upon hearing it, and here's why
b/c the mantra "everybody get random" works on two levels
on the one level i envision a dancefloor with people randomly humping one another -- orgiastic humping, indiscriminate humping, serial humping -- not that this is necessarily a desirable state of affairs, but it's the vision that i get in my head
on the second level i flash on badiou's notion of the event that interrupts repetition -- the "supplement" that is heterogeneous to the existing state of things, or what there already is -- "the supplement that is committed to chance -- it is unpredictable, incalculable"
and so when lady sov says "just do something random" -- badiou's notion of the event is what i think of
the obvious record to play two or three tracks afterward is potential bad boy's "jungle fever"
i.e., we reintroduce the sex theme -- now as miscegenation -- but we also set about the business of instilling the proper mindset or pathos in the crowd = "jungle fever"
in general i'm a big fan of records with simple chants or mantras
words that work with the music
psychedelic programming
first, b/c it's another thread on lady sov
second, b/c i'm mentioning badiou in the music section = how boorish!
however, the menta remix of lady sov's "random" is one of the very few grime records i've actually purchased -- mainly b/c of serious financial constraints, but also b/c even when i do have money i tend to be buy old records, not new
but i absolutely had to have this record upon hearing it, and here's why
b/c the mantra "everybody get random" works on two levels
on the one level i envision a dancefloor with people randomly humping one another -- orgiastic humping, indiscriminate humping, serial humping -- not that this is necessarily a desirable state of affairs, but it's the vision that i get in my head
on the second level i flash on badiou's notion of the event that interrupts repetition -- the "supplement" that is heterogeneous to the existing state of things, or what there already is -- "the supplement that is committed to chance -- it is unpredictable, incalculable"
and so when lady sov says "just do something random" -- badiou's notion of the event is what i think of
the obvious record to play two or three tracks afterward is potential bad boy's "jungle fever"
i.e., we reintroduce the sex theme -- now as miscegenation -- but we also set about the business of instilling the proper mindset or pathos in the crowd = "jungle fever"
in general i'm a big fan of records with simple chants or mantras
words that work with the music
psychedelic programming
