differance

From: Raymond,EL (E.L.Raymond@lse.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 01:07:30 CET

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    hey kids!
     
    I've been watching this thread with amusement.. my fave so far is 'ambient
    speed core???' Giggle.
     
    But seriously, why are we sitting here thinking up names when meanwhile so
    many AJ djs make a point of saying that their music transcends definition?
    I'm thinking of one DJ Kicks cover that pontificates on how Kicks, in his
    quest to confuse boundaries and overturn expectations, deliberately tries to
    make music that cannot be classified. & an old sample on a DJ Shadow song
    with a clip of an interviewer pressing shadow to define his music and
    finally, he comes up with something preposterously meaningless like
    'electronic metal hip-hop experimental countrified funk' or some shit like
    that. Or how about the rhetoric surrounding coldcuts new weirdo digitizing
    mixing thingamabob.. something about how they are constantly seeking to
    transform the nature of authorship and DJ'ing, and this is their latest
    venture. Those are the only three specific (though vaguely described)
    examples I can think of, but I know theres more.
     
    So, yeah, AJ does have some general characteristics, and some aspects of it
    are stable and definable, but fundamentally? I think the spirit of AJ is
    permeable, shape-shifting, contradictory, surprising... all things good and
    edgy and challenging and flucuating. Trying to define what we listen to is
    an excercise in humour.. for listeners sake, I hope it never ends.
     
    ; D
     
    - E
     
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    'Starvation is God's way of punishing those who have too little faith in
    capitalism.'
     
    - J. D. Rockefeller, Sr.
     
     
     
     -----Original Message-----
    From: Leslie N. Shill [mailto:icehouse@redshift.com]
    Sent: 01 March 2001 18:48
    To: acid
    Subject: genre calling

    My dear friends and music lovers, the harder we try to name what we love
    musically, the further we get from anything real and the closer we get to
    institutional tagging (UGGGH and BLECH!) Acid Jazz works pretty well for me
    and the information I derive from this list and the various contributors
    (you know who you are!) is very valuable to me and it goes well beyond any
    wordy definition, people seem to know what they like and, more importantly,
    what is GOOD and that makes the difference not the name of it. While not
    having a clear tag might make things harder to find in a record store, just
    acid jazz is really fine as far as I am concerned! A lot of the best music I
    have connected to via this list is beyond specific definition anyway and I
    kinda like it that way!
     
    leslie/The Power of Sound



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