boys love girls and girls love boys and we're all so fucking indie

i saw play with v/vm sometime and he acted like a 2 yr old, when the management asked hime to turn the levels down, he turned them all up to full as though he was in some fuckin packed out 'avin club (there 20 people there, in this cafe, with just people sitting at tables and chairs). they asked him again, he turns them up. eventually some random bloke from the audience pulled the plug out of the socket. he stormed off. it was shit. the music was boring shit too. apparently his newer stuff is better tho. i just object to this afx style publicity. i mean, afx might be a dick, but at least hes got a sense of humour.........

See, the thing is he'd actually use that as a song title. I actually lurve the guy's work, but I've never met or seen him live...

See also the new Bodgan Racsinski record where he gets all sad and weepy and warbles off key, "Please don't make me cry." A half- finished (and soon published) Pitchfork review of the new Bogdan addresses some of these questions. Love the comparison about emo-> hardcore = Kid 606->IDM. That sounds right, if it a little scary, b/c I think I like the electronic version of emo quite a bit.

Check out 'chart topping radio hit'- that's the song that all the hardcore kids would be into.

Check out 'it'd take millions in plastic surgery to make me black'- that's the song the underground hip hop kids could be digging on.

Check out Hrvatski's remix of the kid on 'catstep'- that's the track that all the IDM purists are going to wet their pants over

Check out his newest ep's- pandering to the german academic style of IDM, coming out of the mille plateux.

Check out his remix of the Rapture and his emo-ish song titles- pandering to the indie and emo kids with his self conscious emotional side.

I think he's a pile of crap, musically, but amazing stylistically and promotionally.

also should note that 'it would take millions etc' is essentially just ma$e's 'feel so good'. which i think is tight, but the the herbish ilm massive seems to think is a bad thing. no offense to the herbs though, it's all love.

If you mean Hrvatski's "Catstep / My Kitten / Catnap Vatstep DSP remix", then it's fearsome good, but that apparently has very little to do with kid606 and almost everything to do with Hrvatski. Unless you count Max Tundra, Vat's my favourite Tigerbeat6-affiliated artist by miles, possibly because he's kind of more old-fashioned and more traditional. Whatever, that remix was one of the most exciting tracks I'd heard in ages, I played it on repeat so many times (shame I didn't feel the same way about the rest of Kid606 and Friends). I hope the promised album happens soon.

In the meantime, also check out the genius of Blitter vs Hrvatski - "Nuclear Cats Get New Homes" [*] and Hrvatski's own "Epoxy" as prime examples of why I'm looking forward to the album, then listen to the blehness of whichever of the original 606 tracks you can find for further evidence that this rumour is probably accurate.

I will hopefully have more thoughts on kid606 and his emo-ness or otherwise when it's stopped being 6:30am and I've finally got some sleep. (I might sound like I'm dissing kid606 in this post; I'm not really, I do like some of his stuff, but I also think he's somewhat overrated. But, damn, he's 6 months younger than me and he's been putting out insane records for years. Yeah, I'm jealous when I think of it like that...)

[* I am officially a sucker for any idm tracks featuring cat references. Luckily, there are lots of 'em. Isn't "Songs About My Cats" just the best album title ever? Planet Mew, do what you do to me, I haven't been the same since my teenage lobotomy...]

Mark, I'm going to assume that you mean this not in a formal sense (of IDM tracks being structured and arranged more like pop songs), but in the sense that tracks need to be constructed with some notion of resonance-with-listeners in mind--not just with the intention of making a racket or engaging in a formal exercise of sorts. In which case I agree with you (I think). It's strange, your P-fork review led me to purchase the new Fennesz record, which, although it's quite abstract in a formal sense, resonates quite deeply with me. I find it highly moving and engaging, and it leads me to do more when I listen then just marvel at the sonics. Perhaps it's just 'cheap' nostalgia (something Boards of Canada--a personal favorite--are often accused of), but fuck-it-all, I wasn't even alive in the 70s, so it must be more than just that. Who knows.

Another thing, I think Kid 606 is a wiseass who has a great feel for the nuances of indieslang and emospeak, and his titles are just trying to be funny, to speak to those cliches that pervade emo/indie. You don't have to be part of the emo scene to know an emo song title when you hear it, so it's not like he's pandering to a crowd. I see it more as making fun of emo; I mean, he has a song called "In love with all you are and forever maybe as if my soul depended on it to survive," for christ sake. If this is meant to be serious, then I don't know what to say. I still like his music, though.

K

luv ya ~steph~

dug out soccergirl ep and gq on the eq 10" recently -- they sound pretty good! especially soccergirl. it sounds kinda like oneohtrix point never at parts. dreamy sequencer trax

for realz.. i luv soccergirl. "why i love life" mini-cd is really lovely in a similar style.