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Groucho Marx rules apply.

Groucho Marx rules apply.

Groucho Marx rules apply.

Attitude problem: I think I'm quietly turning into Ms. Pollard from Pattern Recognition. Only instead of a logo allergy, it's EBM, futurepop, tradg*th and 80s nonsense that makes my life a horrible place. I have had to listen to a set of g*th-aligned CDs for the purposes of review today, and each one had to be leavened with Squarepusher, Aphex, Manitoba and Severed Heads. It was like drinking pints of good Cotswold spring water after gargling buckets of shite. FFS, do the producers of this 'musical' arse have no shame? They're taking the music I loved and recycling horrible and debased versions. I swear, I'm not going to stand idly by and allow this sort of cynical profiteering to continue...

The revolution should not be eulogised

Date: 2003-12-23 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarah-mum.livejournal.com
Odd coincidence; Last night I dusted off a Gill Scott Heron CD.
Thought that while the revoloution probably WILL be televised, it is far more likely to be blogged too - though not by those actually taking part.

Date: 2003-12-23 12:24 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
"FUCKING EDM"

I realised a few weeks ago that the VNV synth sound works on almost any song you can think of. It's the new fuzz guitar, I fear.

Date: 2003-12-23 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
See rant approaching platform three.

Date: 2003-12-23 02:45 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
I mean, just play "Dead Eyes Opened" in your head with That Sound doing the lead. I fear it's what the 1994 remix was lacking.

Date: 2003-12-23 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitchdrei.livejournal.com
hee hee. hee hee hee.

hee hee hee hee.

hee.

[you'll understand when you check your post tomorrow or the next day or whenever the crappy postal service delivers things]

Date: 2003-12-23 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
The entire VNV back-catalogue? You shouldn't have!

:p

Date: 2003-12-23 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
What, euro-trance it up a bit? Mebbe get that bint in from the Ian van Dahl records as well?

Date: 2003-12-23 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Or indeed, just try a new direction for the MeTaL audience: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70312231800272435&sql=Amujqoaeawijd

I especially look forward to hearing 'colon cunnilingus'

Date: 2003-12-23 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitchdrei.livejournal.com
*smirk*

oh no, something entirely different...

[even i'm not that horrid ;P]

Date: 2003-12-23 04:43 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (geek)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
No, no. I'm talking about the sound. The lead line sound on the last couple of albums, particularly the one from "Epicentre". VNV don't use it for much, but think about it for a bit - play a few tunes, appropriate and inappropriate, in your head with it doing lead, and I think you'll see what I mean. Well, I know what I mean.

Date: 2003-12-23 04:43 pm (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
That is so wrong, and lawsuit-worthy.

Date: 2003-12-24 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Ah. Since I can't (thankfully) recall a single VNV track, I'm synth-patching in the dark a bit. I'll guess some howling analogue-lead emulation? Access Viruseses for goalposts? Enduring racket, hm? Isn't it?

Date: 2003-12-24 09:25 am (UTC)
reddragdiva: (Default)
From: [personal profile] reddragdiva
If I could find my copy of Futureperfect I'd do some low-res demonstration rips for you. Get on the RIAA-destroying networks.

Date: 2003-12-25 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hirez.livejournal.com
Ah. Gottim. Yeah, that's a Virus - it's the DX-7 of Right Now.

(He said, confidently)

Strange business. At one stage, all the good records were made with Prophet V's (Human League, New Order. Though Martin Rushent used a MC-202 on Dare...), then people discovered DXes that you couldn't program, but they came with a myriad useful patches (which is why all 80s records sound the same. That and cheap digital delay/reverb boxes. I can still spot a midiverb a mile off) and didn't go off-tune when you gigged them. Then everything went samply-samply (Akai S900 & chums. As used by PWEI and PE) for a while. In the meantime, analogue kit went cheap and a hundred bedroom experimentors went noop noop neep bleep and invented techno and acid house. And had the same problem with the gear in that it wouldn't hold a tune worth a light so you couldn't gig it. Then a bunch of mad Germans buggered around with a slew of DSPs for an afternoon and before you knew it, everyone's hacking away on them shonky old Roland oscillators and Moog filters, only this time they're all soft and run MIDI.

Result: Everything sounds like Tangerine Dream.

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