on the other hand i find it odd that people insist that functional dance music should aspire to being art...
craft could be defined as the creation of a practical artefact marrying form and function (hello photek!) - if you think of basket weaving for example you will see that the best baskets woven by master weavers are utterly practical and are beautiful objects. there tends to be a serious tradeoff between making something "pretty" and making something "useful" and someone who truly skilled in the craft has the best results. there are thousands of people worldwide making baskets with near identical functions but strikingly different forms using strikingly varied techniques.
why should we insist on upholding standards of "art" to a process that resembles "craft"?
there tends to be a serious tradeoff between making something "pretty" and making something "useful" and someone who truly skilled in the craft has the best results.
doom im feeling that mix in a very big way
im gonna jack up your selection fo real
lol
make it happen - you owe it to yourself.if I was actually playing out anywhere![]()
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Thanks guys, thats exactally what I'd be playing out (only longer).... if I was actually playing out anywhere![]()
I think that functionality could be also called as groove; a function which makes you dance.the funk-tional aspect that kept jungle as simultaneously proper dance music AND avant garde art of the highest calibre.
the dividing line between craft and art is blurred, true. art transcends the process of making something (people always get hung up on conceptual artists - they didn't put the work in!), and frees it from having a purely utilitarian use.
i am computer programmer and i find perfectly engineered elegant algorithms beautiful but that does not make them art.
but rave was not purely functional in the same way that a record engineered simply to fit into some bland minimal yawn-fest is. as regards rave - the passion, the intensity, the mind-boggling distortion of time and space. this is art. the producers might not have felt that way, but intentions aside, it was as far from purely utilitarian as you can get. it speaks to my soul. i might admire a weaved basket, and sure there's a kind of zen beauty about it but its just not the same.
i used to buy shitty filler house records i knew would mix well. in the end i sold them all and made a resolution never, ever, to buy anything for purely functional reasons.
and in fact the production process for music is a craft - but its become so easy that its mundane to even focus on it - the only people who ask musicians about it are journos from kit magazines. it is the conceptual design, the art, that matters.
or tokyo and you can crash at my place sometime
long time no see eh!
Zhao said:dood come to berlin we can school some minimal clones