And proud of it... "The assembly-line character of the culture industry, the synthetic, planned method of turning out its products (factory-like not only in the studio but, more or less, in the compilation of cheap biographies, pseudo-documentary novels, and hit songs) is very suited to advertising: the important individual points, by becoming detachable, interchangeable, and even technically alienated from any connected meaning, lend themselves to ends external to the work. The effect, the trick, the isolated repeatable device, have always been used to exhibit goods for advertising purposes, and today every monster close-up of a star is an advertisement for her name, and every hit song a plug for its tune. Advertising and the culture industry merge technically as well as economically. In both cases the same thing can be seen in innumerable places, and the mechanical repetition of the same culture product has come to be the same as that of the propaganda slogan. In both cases the insistent demand for effectiveness makes technology into psycho-technology, into a procedure for manipulating men. In both cases the standards are the striking yet familiar, the easy yet catchy, the skilful yet simple; the object is to overpower the customer, who is conceived as absent-minded or resistant. " Adorno and Horkheimer, The Culture Industry
~DP On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM, kent williams<chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Elitist. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:37 PM, David Powers<cybo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> RE the track names: >> Terrible choice of drummers to honor... What happened to Max Roach, >> Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Tony Williams? >> ~DP >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM, kent williams<chaircrus...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Vergel twitted this one: >>> http://www.crosstalkchicago.com/newfeatures/featured/pages/PMK022_Jeff_Mills.htm >>> >>> As far as I can tell from sound samples these are all pretty much live >>> programming of an 808 without any effects. Since I've spent many >>> hours of my life listening to this sort of thing when working on my >>> own tracks, it's hard for me to hear the Mills in them, but maybe over >>> the course of a whole track they'll be more compelling. >>> >>> Track titles are kinda hilarious. Who knew Mills was a Rush fan? >>> >> >
