Favorite Moments (2): Glimpsing the Humanity

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As a kind of inversion of this thread here what a your favourite parts of glimpsing humanity (sic) in otherwise inhumane music?
I ask this after listening to the new Dorine Muraille cd where everything is dsp f*cked, and occasionally a pure female french voice appears, singing.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

argh, link not work this thread

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

When I saw Kraftwerk, Florian cracked a smile during "Pocket Calculator." Later, after the show was over, I saw him in normal clothes peeking out to the street through a stage door.

― hstencil, Friday, 4 April 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

there's that controlled bleeding noise album (phlegm bag? spattered? something?) which is entirely vicious merzbow-type feedback throughout and suddenly it stops and you hear paul lemos' wife yelling at him to turn it down. classic.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 4 April 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The Kraftwerk story is CLASSIC!

I suppose RDJ's mom saying something like "You've got so many machines, Richard!" and his matter-of-fact reply "I have a lot" in some track on Come to Daddy is similar -- but the humanity is kind of unrelated to the track into which it's spliced.

Hmm, maybe better answer: in really early synthpop when parts were played by hand rather than by machine, and the timing gets off. For example: OMD's Electricity (which I love all the more for this feature...)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 4 April 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

when the final (studio) bit of d.i. go pop bleeds into the live-in-the-apartment crowd noise and the land lady demanding they turn it down, it always gets me every time

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 April 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

One more I really like is Phonem's "Syntax" (on some Morr comp.), in which a robot practises its spoken English with help from an instructional tape. Half the robot responses come out pretty close to good English; the rest degenerate into pure glitchiness. In the end, the robot seems not to care, and the glitches evolve into a nice groove. Always makes me smile.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 4 April 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd quite like to hear that.
plus i tend to like dubs with vocal snatches.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 4 April 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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