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"Lysergic Interlude (Ice Cream Dude Sells E)" [mp3 removed]. The drums are 808 samples and the song incorporates a longish acid house break. The schizo title reflects my current ambivalence between art and street, I guess. Nice quote from 808 State liner notes ca 1999: "The injustice, if you're looking for it, is that out of the whole Manchester scene of [the late '80s], the Inspiral Carpets and the Stone Roses are seen as history's heroes. All the while, Gerald's "Voodoo Ray" and 808 State's Newbuild were championing a whole new way of making music, a music that had no reference and didn't need or want anything to do with guitars (Richard Hector Jones)." Been looking for a Brendan M. Gillen quote to the same effect--that the 808 drum machine was a paradigmatic instrument like the electric guitar. If only it were true. Pop culture is still addicted to the angry skronk of guitar feedback as the numero uno indicia of (commodified) rebellion, while the 808 has lapsed back to cult status, post the rave era.
SCREENFULL has been inactive for a while but jimpunk has a new interactive piece: "Joseph.Beuys -
JA JA JA JA JA NEE NEE NEE NEE NEE - AsCii Sound rem:x - #1 - 20051013-12:04." A shamanistic utterance by Beuys--not familiar with the clip--is given the Steve Reich "Come Out" treatment in three dimensions, the dimensions being height, width, and time. The sound bites overlap, go out of phase, and echo as you move a cursor around an ASCII Beuys image--kind of a speak and spell granular sampler. Subject to the usual gripes about making art based on the work of famous cult artists, checking it out is recommended. How's that for passive construction to avoid the self-absorbed sounding first person?