Woebot
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Anyone else picked this up? I was a little disappointed, but its not bad. What it does have in it's favour is that they're actually making a sound. Does anyone else know what I mean by this? Its as if Wire music is so nebulous and intertextual that bohos are actually afraid to strike out, be direct, not be determined to make record-collection music.
Actually I reckon its not as difficult as people make out to be original, people have just become used to being toadies. Theyv've got used to the emotional security that comes with not being original. Original may even be the wrong word (thinking out loud) cos this isnt that startling innovative, praise the lord, its just direct. Unfussy.
Also the other thing I thought was that maybe this signals the end of "The Dominating Hegemony" of ambience or post-ambience over Wire music. By that I mean that the mag, since Toop's "Ocean of Sound" has pretty much explored every cul-de-sac leading out of the market phenomenon know as Ambience. Avant-Garde Classical music, Free-Jazz, Glitchtronica etc all this I reckon, in its purest essence, is consumed and construed as a form of Ambient music. OK you say Keenan and his post-Bangs Rock-into-Free music trip, hmm, I dunno if that would be sustained by a Rock market. I reckon that's been sustained by a post-Ambient market. Certainly thats how most people I know ended up with a taste for the Avant-Garde....
Actually I reckon its not as difficult as people make out to be original, people have just become used to being toadies. Theyv've got used to the emotional security that comes with not being original. Original may even be the wrong word (thinking out loud) cos this isnt that startling innovative, praise the lord, its just direct. Unfussy.
Also the other thing I thought was that maybe this signals the end of "The Dominating Hegemony" of ambience or post-ambience over Wire music. By that I mean that the mag, since Toop's "Ocean of Sound" has pretty much explored every cul-de-sac leading out of the market phenomenon know as Ambience. Avant-Garde Classical music, Free-Jazz, Glitchtronica etc all this I reckon, in its purest essence, is consumed and construed as a form of Ambient music. OK you say Keenan and his post-Bangs Rock-into-Free music trip, hmm, I dunno if that would be sustained by a Rock market. I reckon that's been sustained by a post-Ambient market. Certainly thats how most people I know ended up with a taste for the Avant-Garde....