Forget all this riff raff mumbo jumbo. just make music and play it.
leave the philosophy to authors of mix mag.
On 16/03/2005, at 2:59 PM, Weston Prince wrote:
On 3/16/05 8:55 AM, "Simon Kong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Techno music in its origins was about futurism. Using new
technology to
to express new ideas and explore new paradigms.
Sure, but older technology can still be used to those ends, the way
certain
'obsolete' machines were reclaimed by various Detroit innovators in
order to
express themselves. In a somewhat related way, Mills uses old films and
stories (The Time Machine) to get the brain synapses firing and
explore new
techno trajectories.
How does 'newness' enter the world, anyway? Often by turning technology
against itself, by forcing it against the grain, against nature (or
what
have become the natural, accepted norms of commodity culture). But
will the
"spirit of the people" always be "greater than man's technology" as
Cleaver
famously said? Aren't these things part and parcel of the same thing?
Some comments from CC in an interview with a local paper here:
"Techno is a state of mind. It's driven by an obsession with the
future and
what the future should be, and it's an attempt to represent that in
sound.
The best techno music sounds like nothing you've ever heard before,
yet the
mood it's expressing is instantly familiar. Techno is what you get
when a
bunch of black ghetto kids start dreaming of alternative futures,
rather
than reporting on what they see, which is more the department of
hip-hop."
"My music takes a different stance to most music, I think. It's a
little
quirky, it's influenced by almost everything, and I'm careful to
ensure that
it isn't just different from what everybody else is doing, but also
different from what I've done in the past."
"What I do is about being original, not copying. I make music to
express
what the future sounds like for me, a black man who grew up during the
'70s
in the rubble of capitalism in America. For someone growing up in New
Zealand, the future should sound very different."
Cheers,
Wes
