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Cheers for this tip. Downloaded the Tristan Murail, and I'm loving it.

Yeah, a mate of mine has this pet theory that culture is inversely related to gdp growth. i think there's probably something in it. (He even tried creating his own index of culture, based upon his own taste in literature and attempted to corrolate with gdp...) You can't really deny that the...

Roxy Music - The Bogus Man

Quite, its the lack of tension in this broadband/niche/long-tail world that is precisely the problem. And its a problem that iterates upon itself. This 'something new' (and big) will always attempt a rupture with current forces, and will explicitly set its stall out against them. A lack of...

Tate> Apologies for the lack of page number. I'm not sure the context adds much anyhow, although I do find that section to be very useful. Nomadologist> Woaw, it's dangerous using words like essence isn't it? To clarify, the previous discussion seems to imply that Derrida's hauntology cannot...

I think this misses the point somewhat. Hauntology is not merely re-presentation, as to say as much is pretty meaningless, as you point out. This paragraph from Peter Hallward's Badiou: A subject to truth seem to nail it, as i understand things: This obscurantism is evolving from the "What...

No, but you can attack the manner of that supposed meaning. To put it another way, I think what Swears is getting at is that there are aspects of music which he values (and used to be valued more generally) which are no longer even recognised or considered by most.

I'm not sure if hauntology can be said to be that heroic really. It seems like an understandable and perhaps admirable reaction, but it has an air of resignation about it that I'm a little uncomfortable with. Put in a more Badiouan perspective, hauntology seems like a tired and wearisome form...

But if you can't tell the difference, why does it matter?

Yes, it is slightly rich of Eno to bang on about the importance of ideas, when he himself has just recycled the same one for twenty years. 'Yes Brian, i see what you've done here - it can go on forever and never repeat - how exciting! That's just dandy. I've just got one problem though, and...

Peep Show was different writers. The new thing is not total shit all the time, but is only really held up by whichever-one-played-Mark-in-Peep-Show displaying excellent comic timing and delivery (by being Mark from Peep Show).

Yeah, sure a lot of techy guys would laugh at your mates use of primitive kit, but a lot of highly respected musicians would probably applaud him. Doesn't Kieron Hebden use a very primitive sequencer, and I'm sure there are loads of other examples. All those computer music magazines are...

Whoopsy, magz's new thread emerged as i was writing. MOD!

Sunn O))) @ Hippodrome Report Wonderful evening of bludgeoning noise last night, courtesy of sunn o))) and friends. Anyone else there? Support was pretty good. Missed most of Leopard Leg, but from what i saw they looked entertaining enough, with their brand of chaotic ritualistic drum and...

Bugger. And I only pre-ordered it yesterday.

Yeah, as much as I usually hate the overly 'dubby' dubstep (i.e. lazy off-beat rhodes, or brass stabs), I do like Dutch Flowers. Mainly because the bass is so damn cheeky. Another one that only skream could pull off.

Erm... but clearly what is in discussion here is the existence and (limited) success of the kind of stuff you describe. The point is that 15 years ago you could enjoy a week such as the one you describe. Is that true of now? For all the omnipresence of music, there are only a handful of musics...

@nomos, well, year, i am being kind of dismissive here, and no doubt taking things a bit far, but i'm still not entirely convinced by your rebuttal here. After all, 'Swarm' doesn't exactly feature the kind rasping metallic sounds being referenced here. More like, Kode just needed a name...

And if this new venture has any success, we might be able to do away with them once and for all. http://www.sellaband.com/ Great idea, but as ever the content is absolutely pony (so far?).

OK, how about this for a question: Doesn't Kode9's confession that he makes deliberate attempts to separate theory from practice just go to prove that much (if not all) of crit theory is in fact a complete load of bullshit? My logic is this: If theory was in fact bringing genuine knowledge...