blissblogger
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"the sensation of muck" is a phrase that popped into my head a long time ago when flicking through a huge swathe of house 12 inches in a store... a cumulative awareness of the lack of care taken about titling tracks or even artist names and label names, the drab typography, the generic black or white sleeves, the absence of any interesting visual framing or attempt to make the objects desirable to own in themselves
however that music was at least honestly utilitarian in its presentation, its desultory quality reflecting the functionality of the music as grist to the dj's mill
the other night, going through some used record bins (that american term for second-hand vividly brings out the forlorn-ness ness of dejected and rejected music commodities, suggesting both soiled and jilted) i decided there was a new contender for sensation of muck status -
drum & bass 12 inches of the second half of the Nineties.
here the problem is the pretension, the failed artiness or failed futuristic-ness
the ghastly logos, cyberpunk-ish graphics, the colours - and then the godawful artist names and track titles
this is the true fallen kitsch of the Nineties - even more so than the IDM and chill-out records and trance
i don't really have any pictures or videos, there are too many examples - i'm sure you know what i mean though
well there's this - and it's not even that heinous an example
however that music was at least honestly utilitarian in its presentation, its desultory quality reflecting the functionality of the music as grist to the dj's mill
the other night, going through some used record bins (that american term for second-hand vividly brings out the forlorn-ness ness of dejected and rejected music commodities, suggesting both soiled and jilted) i decided there was a new contender for sensation of muck status -
drum & bass 12 inches of the second half of the Nineties.
here the problem is the pretension, the failed artiness or failed futuristic-ness
the ghastly logos, cyberpunk-ish graphics, the colours - and then the godawful artist names and track titles
this is the true fallen kitsch of the Nineties - even more so than the IDM and chill-out records and trance
i don't really have any pictures or videos, there are too many examples - i'm sure you know what i mean though
well there's this - and it's not even that heinous an example