welcome to this discussion

I hope someone posts a message soon.. what do you all think about the may banners song? pretty good eh? eh?

IF YOU DON"T LEAVE ME A MESAGE I WILL DIE!

Music - like many art forms - is not dialectical. It doesn't evolve or progress, at least not most of the time. Most of the time music is like a huge understimulated gene pool, an endless sequence of different recessive and dominant traits combining and recombining to produce subtle, slight, superficial variations. This is most glaringly true in the largest category of music - pop. Certainly, every once in a while a tiny bit of an unusual gene is spliced into the mix to keep the subject alive, but overall the progression of popular music is rather static.

Many people express an opinion that, on its surface, seems very similar to the above statement. They see popular music as a facet of corporate culture, and speak of the assimilation of independent elements into the cultural mainstream. However, this perspective presents several difficulties. Most of the invigoration of popular music tends to come from either underprivileged or exotic sources. Hip-hop and "world" music are the main elements currently in vogue. In contrast, the "independent" music scene is generally not underprivileged, and hardly exotic. Rather - and a markedly similar phenomenon has been taking place in the world of film - the independent has developed into a sub-class of the mainstream, sometimes even imitating of the mainstream. There are no significant differences between the mainstream and independent aesthetics. This becomes even more true as production costs fall drastically due to technological development. If anything, the independents generally differentiate themselves by cannibalizing elements of previous eras of popular mainstream music - creating music that may be slightly different from the current style, but is essentially just recycled.

The resurgence of "guitar rock" in areas of independent music is a prime example of this stagnation. The sound of guitar rock has not changed significantly since the 70s, and it seems that the potential of the guitar has been more or less exhausted, at least as a sound strong and fresh enough to support significantly new stylistic development. If anything, the guitar should be relegated to the role of a bright, saturated color: to be used sparingly and as part of a more varied and textured whole. The guitar is dead; long live the true composer!

niki, remember when I tried to convince you that I didn't hate that magnetic fields song? I'm listening to it right now. good web-page. bought the moving units cd. it is such good shit.

Edited by author 09-10-2004 04:19 PM
I remember when you did that. Plus I am listening to your desperado mix and waiting for you to write another musical review for this magnificent page. Also Gabriel and I silk screened some tee shirts last night
I have a blue base ball tee with asymmetrical hot pink skulls and some black shirts with the unicorns!
ORDER OF THE SKULL AND UNICORN!

hi.
I like the new mp3
also, I should let you know that that found art scrap I sent is from foundmagazine.com
check it out. It rocks my world.
max
ORDER OF THE SKULL AND UNICORN FOREVER!

SO,
I am compiling interview questions for Schneider TM, any ideas kids?

(h already agreed to the interview! rock.)

nice interview - germans are fun!

Very nice work in this blog. I like the mp3 songs and the posts are great!

Marcos Donizetti
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