mille plateaux s&d

Destroy: Alec Empire's Low On Ice is very overrated. It's dull.

DESTROY: i dunno...i'm sure there's some major dross in there. lots of MP and related product always seemed a bit too faceless for me. oh, and THE THEORY.

damn, MP was a great label for a long stretch, but they've definitely been eclipsed by their parent labels these days...

ohmigod, for milles plateaux its got to be all SND: make snd cassette, that other one, tender love.

not sure about gas. bits of the clicks and cuts good, esp vol. 2.

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Jess is so fucking OTM with this it hurts

thanks

Search: I love the Gas records especially, the last two (Konigsforst and Pop) are just stunning. Aafter that I'd look for Pluramon esp. Render Bandits, Clicks And Cuts #1, also SND.

Destroy: I have *another* horrible Alec Empire record on MP, Etoiles Des Filles Morts. Awful synthetic-orchestral yammering.

a million years pass...

> okay I have read a little about what Terre Thaemlitz does, but I want to know more so I can get some kind of an idea if I might like listening to this stuff: specifically the Gary Numan one and the Jraftwerk one (done on the piano I believe: are they fucked with like the recording or the way the piano is played)

the piano albums are all very seriously handled, musically. they are more "new music" (avant-garde) piano, not muzak or easy-way-out cover versions (like if i hear "kraftwerk on piano" i think "plink-plonk" rigidly timed stuff, but these are totally open-meter and moody, as referenced in the series being the "rubato" series, which means open-meter in piano speak). a lot of melodies are turned inside out, obscured, rearranged. a treat for hard fans of the bands he's covering. those who are not hardcore fans may be lost - but the sound is nice. resonant, reverberated, deep....

mm, I still dig the Mille P stuff even though it's soo unfashionable these days. Clicks N Cuts 2 is great, V Delay, Twerk, Kid 606. Is this stuff now do vehemently hated?

Is this stuff now do vehemently hated?

No, I would say that a lot of it is justly forgotten. There was good stuff on the label like Gas, Terre Thaemlitz, Thomas Koner, Oval, and Rechenzentrum. It is hard to believe that their prime time was a decade ago. Time passes, doesn't it?

Damn, Achim Szepanski (Force Inc./Mille Plateaux founder) has passed.

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Sorry to hear this. Mille Plateaux was a gateway for me. I've an estimated 150 releases over Force Inc., MP, Ritornell, Force Tracks etc. Introduced me to Terre Thaemlitz, Gas, Oval and many more.

Oh man, sad to hear. Force Inc and Force Tracks were absolutely crucial for me in my formative years of getting into electronic music; Mille plateaux was equally crucial in expanding that interest into the experimental end of it.

At a certain point I kind of lost interest in these labels, much of the music hasn’t aged so well since the 00s, and they’d put out so much (and if we’re being honest, much of it sounding pretty similar). But I’m just thinking about it today, more sympathetic to what it takes to put out a record, especially given how relatively little market interest these records have, and have to admire the commitment to promoting so much music and so many artists exploring the experimental corners of electronic music. And I admire the effort and investment of spending your life fostering work that expands art and theory, leaving behind a vast catalogue of work that’s paved the way for so much more of that.