a solid article on pitchfork about online collaboration that is worth reading even if it feels a bit strange to be talking about transferring files online as if its the cutting edge of technology – though lets be honest, with australia’s criminally slow broadband network, the idea of transferring large audio files or even god forbid jamming live via internet is still in the realm of sci-fi for most of us antipodeans
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there’s an interesting trail of comments being left on emmy’s gently critical unkle ho review over at the cyclic defrost blog with a host of cyclic writers and also a representive of ho’s label all chiming in. a sample: “I’ve noticed that a lot of other descriptions of the album have focussed on it being ‘exotic’ and this is where it becomes tricky. Is it exotic because of the preconceptions of the listener, or the intentions of the producer, or a combination of the two? Where does ‘exotic’ become ‘authentic’?”… also discussed is the tendency for electronic producers to give their tracks lazy cheesy song titles (*guilty as charged)
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fat planet currently is running a concise primer on cosmic disco that i enjoyed. and rose quartz has a track by fabulous diamonds that i find kookily fascinating.
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and my current listening is tim sweeney’s beats in space program, specifically this xxxchange/chris rockswell (spank rock) guest set pt1 pt2 from a month or so ago. worth checking out. its so solid its stupid, nothing fancy just good stuff
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Sweet Spank Rock set, cheers. Did you catch them at the PoW last year? Rockin’ set, but they had no Ms Amanda Blanks around to do what is officially the best female rhyming in the universe (according to, er, me). You know the bit at the end of Bump? (“I keep that shit nasty.”) Yeah, nothin’.
no i missed that. i think all shit should be nasty, just like, by default. shit that isn’t nasty just ain’t shit. i know i’ve never looked at shit and thought “wow that ain’t nasty”
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