Nevermind. I had originally posted some lame reply to Steve, but re-reading this thread has taught me that I have A LOT to learn, so I'm just gonna shut up, read some of the old, awesome threads on music and leave it to the grown folks to have the final word.

tocharian wrote:Nevermind. I had originally posted some lame reply to Steve, but re-reading this thread has taught me that I have A LOT to learn, so I'm just gonna shut up, read some of the old, awesome threads on music and leave it to the grown folks to have the final word.

the original response was so much funnier. "...stop being such a fucking asshole." hilarious.

that damned fly wrote:the original response was so much funnier. "... That Damned Fly stop being such a fucking asshole." hilarious.

FYP

tocharian wrote:

that damned fly wrote:the original response was so much funnier. "... That Damned Fly stop being such a fucking asshole." hilarious.

FYP

QFP (quoted for posterity.)

I wanted to like it. I swear I did. I've been really enjoying some electronica the last coupe of years for the first time in my life...Boards of Canada, Bui Boratto, Autechre, Ulrigh Schnauss...but every time I put this album on I feel like I'm trapped in a Banana Republic. There's no soul or feel to it at all.

CRAP

that damned fly wrote:

tocharian wrote:

that damned fly wrote:the original response was so much funnier. "... That Damned Fly stop being such a fucking asshole." hilarious.

FYP

QFP (quoted for posterity.)

I'll send it off to the National Archives.

tocharian wrote:

I'll send it off to the National Archives.

it makes no sense without the FYP. i didn't call me an asshole.

On Thursday I attended a 2 hour lecture by Wire writer and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, in which he spoke a good deal about the music of Burial, relating it to his theory of 'hauntology'. Whilst it was fascinating, none of it could convince me this music was any good or substantially different to anything I'd heard before.

He was basically arguing that the music of Burial (Kode 9 and The Caretaker) was nostalgic for the 'progressive' rave music of the 90's; much like Sunn O))) carries a trace of Metal. In sense, it is the spectral haunting of those genres. He explained it pretty well, but I'm profoundly unconvinced by the music he chose to illustrate his ideas. I don't feel that we live in an adjunct of history, in which the genuinely new can't conceivably be created. And I think that there is nothing weaker than adding 'crackle' to records.

It almost seemed like a classic theorist, theorizing out the possibility of new potentials, because in a sense they don't understand creativity.

Anyway, here's him blogging about it:

London after the Rave

Dub Housing

[His ideas originated in Derrida's Specters of Marx and were related to Fukuyama's End of History, pivoting round the idea that we are now nostalgic for a future that never arrived]

Cranius wrote:On Thursday I attended a 2 hour lecture by Wire writer and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, in which he spoke a good deal about the music of Burial, relating it to his theory of 'hauntology'.

Just so everyone knows, I will never, never, never ever ever listen to a word Mark Fisher writes/ says ever again.

'hauntology'?! oh baby...