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That's hindsight and amounts to revisionism. The IMMEDIATE influence of say, gamelan on emergent grime or techno is very small, even non existent. All music- all history- may be retrospectively viewed as a continuum, and certainly some c20th classical composers acknowledged the influence of...

I don't think it's about authenticity so much as a kind of improvement on or modernising of "reality". Anecdotally i heard of someone getting a job as a "pirate" at disneyland having to shave off his full beard and wear a false one for work. The simulacrum was more desirable than "reality", and...

I have both an original "Psychedelic Sounds.." and the 180g reissue. Full size reproduction of original artwork is an argument in favour of the vinyl reissue imo, but in this case the cover has undergone a directly equivalent tasteless digital remastering process to the music; what was once...

Interesting thread, i find the ECM aesthetic pretty hard to swallow though i admit it is at least distinctive(?) However ouch! on Martin Davidson's behalf at emanem being labelled with the J word ;)

The Pole record in the Fatcat split series was made by VVM, they sent a bogus master to the label. It was pressed before anyone noticed but only a few copies ever got out. It's somewhat collectable now...