Maybe I am simply reaching a little too hard to get back to what makes me an ardent follower of FSOL or the ambient techno electronica universe of futurist, space age, on-the-dawn-of-a-new-era mysticism that I found so appealing as a youth and as it carried me through to now, but I am having a hard time floating through what music is now and how to find things that continue reshaping the order of my world in regards to recorded sound.
I feel like all I can do is feel like there's an era gone by, but I'm not sure what there is as a music after techno? (or ambient / uk electronic, what have you). Also - I am unsure if I am simply a victim of my own obscured frame of reference which is defined by my own transition from being an active fanatic and always listening to music and working on synths non stop when I was younger to having entered real life (work, corporations) and reliving days gone by. Maybe they are simply gone by for me, and my own attitude is that of an old timer (even if I'm young) saying that there will never be another this or that, or that music is over, etc. Maybe there is always people doing interesting things, building scenes, and achieving breathtaking aural and all encompassing art, but this is just a mood I am in now on this reflective Sunday. Any thoughts? I know my reference to FSOL or classic early 90s electronic techno ambient what have you isn't explicit Detroit relevant, but I think many can identify to these themes. The below definitely reference detroit artists, and they even speak! part 2: ----- FYI - I am double posting from another friend's list, but check this out, if you haven't yet: http://www.subrosa.net/online/main_dr_catalogue_electronics_detail.php?AlbumID=76 you can even listen to it for free before buying on this thing called deezer: http://www.deezer.com/en/l-r-radiomentale/i-could-never-make-that-music-again-A40541.html I Could Never Make That Music Again L-R & RadioMentale with the voices of Derrick May, Stacey Pullen, Autechre, Matmos, Alec Empire, A Guy Called Gerald, Mad Mike (Underground Resistance), Coldcut, Mixmaster Morris, DJ Shadow, Kid Koala, Steve Reich, Claude Lévèque, Rioji Ikeda, Richie Hawtin, Richard James (Aphex Twin), Thomas Brinkmann, Mantronix, Christian Fennesz, Squarepusher, The Residents, Tony Morley, David Toop, Matthew Herbert, Simon Begg, Andrea Parker, Pole SR249 I Could Never Make That Music Again is a choral album, a sound collage crafted out of interviews,where artists, musicians, DJs and sound makers talk openly about their work, their visions, their hopes, their moments of doubts and their regrets in a loosely constructed narrative. Even though most of the people interviewed here have just met on a few occasions, they have all participated in the making of the history of electronic music; from the early tape experiments in the 1950s to the latest trends in techno. -- Michael Kuszynski kuszyn...@gmail.com www.planerecordings.com New York, NY
