i've bee saying this for ages, on this forum too, meeting with considerable objection. Thanks to David Toop for saying it during his recent lectures, and Tony Herrington for following up in the pages of The Wire:
techno didn't emerge from tabula rasa, and Kraftwerk should be seen as firmly...
(Now i see why woebot never gets comments on his website, so we'll have to rehearse this discussion over here)
i almost posted this some time back when i read this sycophancy
http://www.utne.com/Arts/MP3-Music-Scavengers-World-Music-Experts.aspx
bollocks, but interesting bollix nonetheless...
this is something i need to get off my chest. 4/4 kicks are wrong.
listening to planet rock last night it has the synth and drum machine that all the techno guys used but with, to my ears, a more interesting rhythm.
there's a huge division in electronic music between 4/4 and non
Martyn said about his Fabric 50:
“I did the whole mix CD live just because I thought that was more honest than doing an Ableton DJ mix. It is how I would play live - not everything on the CD is perfect, but it’s not meant to be. That goes for my DJ sets and for my music as well; there’s always...
Anyone want to recommend some? "Intelligent layman" sort of stuff, so ideally not ultra-specialized or densely theoretical, but not dumbed down either.
Particular points of interest would be:
* social / cultural / economic stuff rather than or as well as political and military
* pre-roman...
and it comes up with:
天野尚 *cums in a sock* animism vs. cybernetics aquacrunk baroness phwoaarr!-si belly full of crap blackathena black athena brave but foolish broad cumbucket butt doctor capitalism clenched epistle cunts dubstep fuck dog funky finney fush grubby t-shirt salesmen guru josh i'm...
animism vs. cybernetics
aquacrunk
baroness phwoaarr!-si
belly full of crap
blackathena
brave but foolish
broad cumbucket
clenched epistle
dubstep
finney
funky
fush
grubby t-shirt salesmen
guru josh
i'm ok you're ok
jon e cash
k-punk
late night city aesthetic
man ah warrior
meg and mog
mole rationalism
mrtea
non-rational
oede-o-pod
oh yes there is
phantom flan flinger
protracted flame wars
rootsfromyard
self-hindrance
serotonin depletion
shamanic mong face
superstition
talked to death in 1995
techgnosis
the hooded claw
things you have noticed
whites
why woofah 4 is delayed
wiley
wobble
you fink you're sooo clever
zhao has an opinion!
zhaothat'swhaticalldance
in a tangent from the Giving Up Coffee thread in which Chaotropic started telling amazing stories about his cryptozoological expeditions.
it does make sense and i understand/agree with/am all for those reasons. but at the same time it also makes counter-sense: in the act of "destroying" the...
animism vs. cybernetics
blackathena
broad cumbucket
dubstep
for the love of god stop
guru josh
hunting & gathering
magical mystery tours
meta-rational
non-rational
phantom flan flinger
protracted flame wars
psychic self defense
situationism
spirits
spurious loaded questions
superstition
sweaty anal sex
tasty hunter gatherers
techgnosis
the hooded claw
zhao has an opinion!
Say you've got a violent death fetish where you'd hit the ultimate orgasm should any 90s pop diva hang or garotte(or shoot, if you're a drip) you in a 15th century show trial in...Iran. Who would you pick?
what little i know about revisionist history and the fictional divide between "east" and "west":
during the first half of Greek empire everything came from Persia: food, music, technology, philosphy, mathematics, astronomy, religion, medicine, fashion, etc, etc, etc, etc. and it was not until...
an irie holidays gift for Dissensians... but maybe you've all seen it already? -- this epic channel 4 documentary is the perfect way to spend some rainy days inside or have on in the background while passing the spliff with friends. awesome Lee Perry footage in the black ark (that man is...
EDIT: Started this as a request thread but thinking we can do a little more with it
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Just a request. I'm hoping maybe someone can help me find something. I'm reading a lot right now about black science fiction and afro-futurism. I've pulled together a lot of the foundational stuff over the...
Over at Lenin's Tomb there's continual mention of this idea - that "race" or "races" do not exist anywhere but only as an artefact in the racist's mind. Lenin seems reluctant to go into the details of the theory - could any one of you intelligent chaps break it down for me or link me to some...
Sorry if this has come up in one of the other threads and I missed it, but has anyone heard Murs' verses on the topic of white people into hip-hop on the track 'And this is for'? The track's on his album with 9th Wonder, '3:16'.
Pretty good I reckon, fairly equivocal in that he's acknowledging...
Why are white people so shit at playing reggae? How comes a Prince Far I platter can make the walls shake but The Police just sound like a mobile ringtone?
Anyone have any recommendation on books on the subject? Fiction or non-fiction as long as it is interesting. I am thinking along the lines of those bits in "Snowcrash" by Bruce Sterling that talk about Sumerian mythology. So I am not looking for a dry account of the beliefs of Sumerians for...
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