This feels like the long-overdue anti-canonic expansion of the canon, a rerouting of the continuum. Starting points for exploration in a wholly different direction. Even managing to include and recontextualise a record I recorded off the radio when I was about 12 years old (Silver Bullet). Love it.
Obviously you're one of the older heads on here, perhaps was even more in the the thick and thin of it 92, maybe more even than bliss, I can't say.
What do you think can be done with this framework, this roadmap, or this tableau? Obviously, I know its nuts and bolts, as I condensed it into a compact stream as it were. but if we uncoil it, then what happens? what happens when we zoom in with a microscope? What do we get apart from sound collage, what am i saying as this grand cultural statement as craner put it? am i basically just a closetted dj/rupture? i mean, i can't say I'd completely object to that, but at the same time I do have a fierce london tribalism running through me. Someone from manchester would probably include more detroit tracks or whatever. ditto also the um. i don't like using the word PC for obvious reasons but the interpretation of the gospel.
Barty's behind the time barrier is interesting for me. He is certainly more in touch with contemporary trends than i am. am i just evading reality and being the token retrofetishising digger, ultimately? I do tend to object to that because like crowl says for aphex the reason why he's so lauded is because of his conceptualism/home listening, his album format. obviously music should be about freedom, yet there seems to be something so.
I don't know, I was hoping people read the list from the perspective of a deep sadness and melancholy as well. not the melancholy of a lost utopia per se. did that occur to anyone?