Zeitkratzer: Germany, and Metal Machine Music

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"A Berlin-based musician's collective called Zeitkratzer has plans to perform Lou Reed's 1975 critical disaster "Metal Machine Music" in a live setting next month. According to the Australian music site Undercover, the band will use "a time-coded score which was transposed from Reed's original electronic music" to recreate the four-sided monstrosity that even Reed himself has famously written off ("Anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am," Reed has been quoted as saying. "I did get to side four, but I got paid for it.") Reed is said to have released the album as a means of breaking his contract with RCA Records. Nonetheless, Zeitkratzer are following through with their tribute, which will be held in Berlin on March 17th, and in Venice on March 20th."

― geeta, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love that album. It sounds very relaxing to me. And full of interesting harmonics.

― Kodanshi, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MMM is terrific, and Reed *also* said (to L.Bangs) that it was "more important than Xenakis". Dumb = believing ANYTHING Reed says, either way, of course. I've lost my copy, which means every time it comes up on ILM I want to play it and get cross I can't. So gee, thanx geeta!!

― mark s, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark- that interview (collected in carburator dung) was really funny. Reed is such a tease. He went into this rant abt people not undestanding it because (memory is sketchy) he's putting the whole history of classic music in there ("I studied for 15 years"). It's just so fucking funny.

Actually, after I check some of the other threads I'll go and play this (after playing haino and borbetomagus with my breakfast! I love saturdays).

I read in the new wire (boring sonic youth on the cover BUT contains a nice dig at david keenan from Ben watson: excellent stuff) that Reed will be personally attending these shows. What a turnaround!

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I say we all go to Berlin to check this out.

― geeta, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if I find it relaxing as such. It sort of has this bright bustling quality. Either MMM or the first Velvets is the best thing Reed has done. I'm not sure which one but I think MMM blew me away more.

― sundar subramanian, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

This is apparently out on cd+dvd now. Looks quite interesting.

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 27 August 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

This has taken a few moons to come out hasn't it? I got to hear bits of it and it wasn't particularly hitting me, maybe bcz I'm a bit bored by Zeitkratzer now.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 August 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

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