ì-Ziq's 'Bilious Paths'

haven't heard this 'Ziq req yet :-(

It's "alt gr" + "m", like this: µ-ziq. At a local record store, I was surprised they had (correctly) filed it under the letter "M", instead of "U". Admittedly, µ-ziq is one of the most pretentious artist names ever.

Rich: Do you really find I Get Wet to be oppresive? It's always struck me as being primarily bubblegum. I don't know, I think it's weird that the u-ziq album got to you, considering that you said that you liked Squarepusher's noisy shit the best and I think that that's even worse than u-ziq, because almost all of ziq's tracks have some sort of melodic base. I don't really get where you're coming from.

Me: I Get Wet is oppressive. I still like it, but it really is an assault. It's vision is singular and direct, and every energy is focused on one single thing. The u-ziq record I found oppressive for the opposite reason -- the vision is so scattershot, but every energy is focused on EACH of those things. I found it really hard to listen to.

Rich: What do you mean "vision?"

So, by oppressive, you mean really dense?

Me: By vision I mean goal.

Yeah, really dense. But more than that... Hmm...

Rich: So, what's the goal of Bilious Paths?

I don't know, in light of recent shit by Autechre, Aphex and especially the last Squarepusher record, I though Paths was difficult, but far from impenetrable.

Me: I'd have to listen again.

You say difficult as if I didn't understand it. Maybe I didn't wanna work my ears that hard? I prolly just didn't give it a fair shake.

Rich: No, I say difficult as if it took me a few listens before I could really process what was going on (which it did). Every time I listen to it, though, it becomes less of a sort of battle. It's totally fair to be turned off by it, I think -- I'm not knocking you for that at all. If anything, I just want you to realize that I'm not crazy and that there's a lot to latch onto there, if you give it time. But you can't be faulted if you don't fee like it. That's all.

Me: But you also know that I love space in songs. Just look at how/why/what I love about Calla!

Rich: Yeah, totally, where as I'm apathetic about space...sparse shit sometimes really impresses me, but I often find stuff like this really impressive, too, because it's so intricate and off-the-wall. It's a matter of preference, really.

Fucking claustrophobe.

Me: I mean I can like stuff that's just walls. Like Squarepusher. But what I dislike about, say, nu-metal, is the lack of space. Ya gotta let the song breathe, dig?

Rich: Yeah, and there's a lot of Squarepusher stuff that you could say that about, I think...but certainly not Go Plastic. I don't mind if a song only breathes in shallow gasps, but whatever.

i rather like mr. paradinas' music, much more so than mr. james' music.

I'm with Trife on Goodbye Goodbye though... absolutely lush.