I've been listening to what Ian Penman tells me to. That does include a smattering of Solange and Lana Del Rey, but it's mostly dead black males.
Boooring
Music doesn't exist any more just a simulation of music just as emotions don't exist any longer just the simulation of emotion.
Lee Gamble
Exhaust
'Exhaust’ engages in a world well and truly with us right now – explosive, chaotic, unpredictable, contradictory, intoxicating, hyper-colourful, blown-apart and disturbingly engaging in its surreality. It’s Gamble’s ‘Gully Automated Music Concrète’, sounding out from a high rise overlooking the Ballardian motion-sculpture of a collapsing motorway system.
"‘Flush Real Pharynx’ is the title of sound designer/artist/composer and DJ Lee Gamble’s new three-part album for Hyperdub. The triptych loosely explores three stages of the Semioblitz – the aggressive onslaught of visual and sonic stimuli of contemporary cities and virtual spaces. From ‘In A Paraventral Scale’ (the first part of the triptych released at the start of 2019) the coil springs out into the straight-up choked semioblitz of part 2 — ‘Exhaust’. Gone are the serpentine dopplers and seductive supercar engines. ‘Exhaust’s neon-charms coalesce into an MDMA rush of Boston Dynamics dog barks, hypnotic voices and imploding motion sculptures. From the backfiring splinters of ‘CREAM’ through disorientating photo shutter snare patterns of ‘Shard’, ‘Exhaust’s sultry voices take you for a 300mph ride down the psychedelic high street stitching together clashing strands of club soundscapes on its way."
https://boomkat.com/products/exhaust-34b62acb-1815-447e-b408-44818c25b069
Always lol'ing at boomkat blurbs. Another record 'commenting on the world today' I 100% will never check out.
I think it has, 100%. As you say, partly it's to try and cut through all the noise, then maybe for others it's a realisation that you can just be an art school thesis with some mp3s attached and that alone can get you hype. The hollowing out of the music press also plays a not unimportant role. Related to this is the visualization of music - if you have a strong aesthetic it can take you so far/much further. Of course, there's been a connection between music and imagery for decades, but it's so much stronger now I think.