do the armchair skank
s. All of this is such an intrinsically different experience that it might make you a)enjoy music you don't listen to at home, and probably never could enjoy at home b)intensify the enjoyment of music you already enjoy at home. .
I agree - and I also think it's wrong to just judge music by the waveforms. It is a social process.
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I suppose a rigidly musicological approach is alright, but Reynolds' 'arkdkore continuum was originally quite explicit about things like pirate radio, record shops, clubs, women, drugs etc.
So on his own terms it's disappointing to see him retreat into stalking Joe Muggs, quoting Dissensus and listening to music via the internets.
blog posts were better in the old days you know.
most of the bloggers getting acclaim right now seem to be just cherry picking the best bits from other writers and forums they like and fusing them together... it's all just a bit safe. i'm sure it's nice enough if you weren't reading those things first time round, but to me it feels stale.
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this is true but the funny thing about dance journalism today, and online discussions of dance music too, is that it hardly ever registers the social dimension. there is almost no on-the-scene reportage, descriptions of crowd behavior, dance styles, rituals, vibes etc.
discussion is almost entirely at the level of tracks, auteurs, production, genre formation, genre history, etc... the talk is largely divorced from how the music is actually used in practice, in real social space
so people are in fact judging music just by the waveforms, constantly
Further to what I was saying to Blackdown a few pages back, I think there's something to be said for the 'outside the scene' armchair journalism point of view. People that are directly involved in the scene I find often can't see the wood for the trees, or inevitably present a biased viewpoint in discussions.
blog posts were better in the old days you know.
most of the bloggers getting acclaim right now seem to be just cherry picking the best bits from other writers and forums they like and fusing them together... it's all just a bit safe. i'm sure it's nice enough if you weren't reading those things first time round, but to me it feels stale.
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Reynolds comes across as quite smug in that post but I have to admit, 9 times out of ten he is on the money.