Slang Editorial :: Never Underestimate The Value Of A Holla'

Sunday, February 15, 2009
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styrofoamfuror: aphex twin did a brilliant remix of Gavin Bryar's Sinking the Titanic

styrofoamfuror: that i prefer to the original

jaychampvinyl: ooh nice!

styrofoamfuror: called Raising the Titanic

jaychampvinyl: BA ZING

jaychampvinyl: haha

styrofoamfuror: he combines melodicism with minimalist drone in a generally interesting way

styrofoamfuror: afx adds a huge drum sound to the piece

styrofoamfuror: this man kind of kills me

jaychampvinyl: Richard D.?

jaychampvinyl: yeah

styrofoamfuror: i really think he was one of the genuises of the last 25 years

jaychampvinyl: he seems like exactly your kind of person

jaychampvinyl: ;-)

jaychampvinyl: brilliant, completely perverse, insanely prolific, ever-changing

styrofoamfuror: he hasn't really done anything too worthy since '99

jaychampvinyl: committed to an aesthetic

styrofoamfuror: but i truly think it's because he got bored

styrofoamfuror: and intentionally tried to compromise his shit by setting up absurd methods for creating music

styrofoamfuror: like putting out ten 12" of music recorded only with analog pre-'95 instruments

jaychampvinyl: hahah

jaychampvinyl: yeah

jaychampvinyl: that usually means boredom

styrofoamfuror: or insisting upon recording an album alternating only between prepared piano and electronic thrash

jaychampvinyl: Reminds me of how Jack White decided he had to use only, like, the marimba and piano to record Get Behind Me, Satan -- a record I've still never heard

jaychampvinyl: such stupid rules

styrofoamfuror: Zzzzzzzzzzz

styrofoamfuror: but AFX work from '94-'97 I believe is still the peak of electronic music as a future medium

jaychampvinyl: that marked the exact point, I think, where I stopped caring at all what White Stripes ever did

jaychampvinyl: (yes to AFX, btw)

jaychampvinyl: agreed

styrofoamfuror: i think he both bored and also afraid of the pressure put upon him to continue breaking ground

styrofoamfuror: which is also why he limited himself so much

styrofoamfuror: so it's like, "Well guys, OBVIOUSLY i couldnt be making groundbreaking shit--i'm using analog synths!"

styrofoamfuror: which, actually more than anything else about him, is a feeling i understand all to well

styrofoamfuror: limiting or even sabotaging your efforts to make sure you don't fail or let people down

styrofoamfuror: which works for a minute until your absence of quality output begins to speak louder than your failure to followthrough on your ambition

styrofoamfuror: and then eventually people more or less forget you ever had that magic in the first place

jaychampvinyl: haha, all excellent points

jaychampvinyl: do you really think he was unconsciously sabotaging himself?

styrofoamfuror: yes

styrofoamfuror: sort of

styrofoamfuror: at the very least i think he became very afraid of his success and trepid about how to move forward

jaychampvinyl: around what time?

jaychampvinyl: mid 90s?

styrofoamfuror: 97

styrofoamfuror: after Richard D James album came out in 95 he was suddenly annointed King of Electronic music and great seer of the digital future

styrofoamfuror: then he waited a bit and two years later put out the Come to Daddy EP

styrofoamfuror: which is great but also only 25 minutes

styrofoamfuror: and then in '99 he put out the Windowlicker single

styrofoamfuror: which is also great

styrofoamfuror: but only 3 songs

styrofoamfuror: one of which is just worthless noise
jaychampvinyl: right

jaychampvinyl: then

jaychampvinyl: nothing

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