The ISDN future of FSOL is here and now, except its more of a DSL/cable world. Every genre goes through periods of reinvention. Detroit music is going through the growing pains of the digital world. The days of digging crates for vinyl with nsc etchings are passed.
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:51:24 -0400 Michael Kuszynski <kuszyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
