CMYK EP is glorious. Reservations revoked, unconditionally.
+100000000000
great balance between the ultra-minimalism of Bells Sketch EP & boisterous emotion of Air&Lackthereof and Untold remix.
CMYK EP is glorious. Reservations revoked, unconditionally.
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2010/04/blubstep-looking-at-april-17-malcolm.html#links
i think the joker comment is a bit off the mark but a lot written here does ring true.
well yeah, but the stuff about the going for more 'emotional qualities' i thought was otm.
but then thats just cos a lot of this stuff doesnt really leave much of a lasting impression on me.
id rather listen to something like house girls part 8.
sure but put it in the context of heavy dark dubstep or on the other side joy orbison in contrast, and the 'emotional qualities' makes more sense, more sense than art or aphex (which are part of his prescribed concept a d experience ) from 17 years ago or whatever when these guys were 4 or 5 years old and also share nothing much musically at all, except they're both electronic and for dancing. whats house girls part 8?
Hang on though, wasn't Reynolds criticised specifically for excluding Aphex/IDM etc... from the nuum narrative? :slanted:
you just have to listen to the music to understand that yet again he's just read the press and not listened to the music
I'll say this, at least he's consistent.
this morning i noticed it was almost exactly a year ago, the nuum debate. can't help thinking muggs and i are a leeetle bit vindicated. the nuum has only become less useful and relevant in the last year. as for k punk, has he written a single word on new music in the last 12 months? on the music we were discussing, anyway? i swear the last time he showed any sign of listening was a bassline piece about three years ago.
he makes up for his stupidness with the last line though:
"I've often heard things streaming out of my son's Nintendo DS that sound like if you stuck one those staggering lurch-beats underneath it you'd be Boomkat-ready"
gold imo.
"dancing is overrated. It takes more thought and effort to move people's emotions than it does their bodies on the dancefloor" - did Blake say that