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Whether or not Derrida is worthwhile for your own work and thinking will depend of course on your own intellectual interests and projects (he is for me, certainly, but I know plenty for whom he is not), in some cases he may be and in others perhaps not useful at all. Really depends on one's...

One of my favorite lines from Jess Harvell's blog back in the the halcyon days of '04/05 went something like this: "As far as bad ideas in the 1990s are concerned, illbient is up there with NAFTA and wearing your clothes backwards." Which still makes me laugh.

and a thoughtful review here, while we're at it: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2796

I'm not really knowledgeable enough to answer, but it's funny that you ask the question because the first conspicuous example of this kind of pre-release savior-heralding is precisely what I associate with the Strokes, which indeed happened to them on the strength of their UK support. They were...

Nice to see the two studies mentioned in this context but you can't leave off Gesang, for which these were written in preparation, basically. I had the pleasure of doing some recording work this past fall in an electroacoustic studio that had a 4-channel copy of Gesang der Jünglinge which had...

Amen to that, Ripley, I couldn't agree with you more.

That 0=0 mix was lovely and hearing "Taught" first up sort of took my breath away for a moment - it's such a beautiful tune and certainly one of my favorites in the last few years. When I still had my weekly dj night two years ago I played it almost every week. Another interesting moment in...

Well I expected you to say that and I knew that you weren't talking about Bukem, you were talking about garage - though for the record the 'Bukem is shit and the wrongway' view is one that I'll always resist, personally speaking, even if the entirety of dissensus were to line up to disagree with...

Another favorite ECM moment: a friend of mine, Michael Galasso, who is best known for his contributions to the soundtracks for Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express but who also happens to be one of Robert Wilson's resident composers, recorded two albums for ECM separated by...

With ECM in the 80s though, because of the eclecticism of what he'd release, you had to keep your eyes on those records that Eicher did not produce. One of my all-time favorite releases on ECM was Steve Tibbetts' Exploded View, in 1987. At the time every single music magazine reviewed it in...

The one you leave out happens to be my favorite, probably because it was my first introduction to her music: Turtle Dreams. Absolutely fantastic record. I still have my copy on cassette, taped off from a friend in '91 :smiles fondly:

Provocative opening post and very cool thread but I must confess that I have a hard time with the "too slick" and (later in the thread) "too new agey" criticisms. I mean, yeah, of course, the unified aesthetic of packaging and production are completely obvious and easy objections, but they were...

There are a lot of folks in this area worth listening to. Tsunoda for sure, as was mentioned, but also Philip Samartzis, Olivia Block, Bernhard Gal, Roel Meelkop, Lionel Marchetti, Seth Nehil, jgrzinich, and John Hudak - all of whom are well-established heavyweights. There are literally...

You're right about Bush being huge in the states for a time but I don't see how they really fit into this story apart from the fact that they were absolutely irredeemably crap and very obviously crap from the first moment of their appearance until the last. I guess if the question has to do...

It's not a popular view that you're espousing, mms, but I agree with you. It's become a commonplace to say that in dance music "jazzy" = "coffeetable" = "end of a genre", but I've always felt that the state of affairs was more complicated that that (will be happy to hear arguments to the...

I've heard really good things about the Meursault, very cool to see you mention it here. A close friend of mine who is deeply involved in the noise/weird folk/underground CD-R culture (as label owner & recording artist) absolutely raves about this record, for many of the reasons you mention...

It's defniitely an interesting suggestion that I'd like to think about for a while. In general, I tend to be initially skeptical about one-to-one structural equivalences where economic phenomenon (A) is mapped seamlessly onto aesthetic trend (B), only because I find that this kind of thing...

From the point of view of a phenomenological characterization of the event, I completely agree that music is not the only attraction at a state fair. I do think, however, that from the point of view of the realia of the people booking the acts and managing the budgets, there is an attempt to...

Good to know, thanks.

Thanks, mistersloane, that's very interesting.