JUNKMEDIA: Electronic Music
a special issue of Junkmedia, April 7-13, 2003
(http://www.junkmedia.org)
Essay
---In The Luxury of Details: Autechre’s Increasingly Experimental Music
“It’s not like we’re on any kind of exploratory journey,” asserts Sean Booth. “I think we’re just trying to do things that don’t exist.”
Features
---Manitoba
“Even if you’re chopping up beats well or have nice little melodies, it’s a dead-end genre at the moment. There really isn’t any reason you shouldn’t make sloppy, live-sounding music on a computer.”
---Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars
“We live in really strange times. There are so many ambiguities and they feed into what we think and what we are concerned with. It makes it very difficult for us to play our music freely.”
---Lasse Marhaug of Jazzkammer
“I don’t know how to play any instrument in the conventional sense. I’ve always worked with tapes and cheap guitar-pedals – you could say I’ve been messed up from the beginning.”
Reviews
---Autechre; Draft 7.30 (Warp)
---Venetian Snares; Find Cadence (Hymen)
---Liasons Dangereuses; Liasons Dangereuses (Hit Thing)
---Bug vs. Rootsman and DJ/Rupture split EP (Tigerbeat6)
---Com.a; Shot of Love (Tigerbeat6)
― ben sterling (frozen in time), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)
I look forward to checking this out, esp. the Manitoba piece, but what's up w/ that St. Werner interview? Is it really short or am I missing the link to full article?
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 7 April 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)