Re: (313) New Yorker: Sound Machine

[David Powers]

Dj Harvey was absolutely amazing when he played in Chicago recently...
Highly recommended!!!
~David

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Benn Glazier  wrote:

> Glad you mentioned that Patrick.
>
> I was going to check it out this weekend. I'll probably just go now to see
> DJ Harvey - which isn't such a bad thing I guess.
>
> Any other 313ers in NYC this weekend up for it?
>
> bg
>
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>
>
>
> On 23 April 2012 18:28, Patrick Wacher  wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the article!
>>
>> Being one of those sad people who missed out on a ticket, I thought i'd
>> treat myself a trip to NYC to go see the exhibit at MoMA PS1 this past
>> Saturday.
>>
>> Man was I disappointed. I assumed incorrectly that there would have been
>> an exhibition of old photos, artworks, memorabilia and whatnot. I quickly
>> learnt that the exhibit was Kraftwerk music vids playing in a big dome.
>> Speakers were sooo distorted that I could only stay in there for a whole of
>> 10 mins.
>>
>> Probably my fault for not researching the exhibit info before booking the
>> 5 hour flight.
>>
>> I really needed a t-shirt that said, "I went to the Kraftwerk exhibit and
>> all I got was this lousy T-Shirt".
>>
>> Carry on...
>> --
>> Patrick Wacher
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Fred Heutte wrote:
>>
>> >
>> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/04/30/120430crmu_music_frerejones
>> ?
>> > currentPage=all
>> >
>> > Sound Machine
>> >
>> > How did a pop band end up in a museum?
>> >
>> > by Sasha Frere-Jones
>> >
>> > April 30, 2012
>> >
>> > On an August night in 1981, the German band Kraftwerk played at the
>> > Ritz, on East Eleventh Street in Manhattan, in support of its latest
>> > album, “Computer World.” The only instruments onstage were actually
>> > machines: reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, keyboards, and a
>> > calculator. All four members of the group had short hair and dressed
>> > identically, in black button-down shirts, black pants, and shiny
>> > shoes, which made them look more like valets than like musicians. That
>> > didn’t bother them, as they didn’t like the idea of being a band—or
>> > even musicians—and often referred to themselves as “operators.”
>> >
>>
> --
>
>

Re: (313) New Yorker: Sound Machine

[Benn Glazier]

Glad you mentioned that Patrick.

I was going to check it out this weekend. I'll probably just go now to see
DJ Harvey - which isn't such a bad thing I guess.

Any other 313ers in NYC this weekend up for it?

bg

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b...@glzr.info 
www.BennGlazier.com
www.twitter.com/BennGlazier
www.facebook.com/BennGlazierPhotography 
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On 23 April 2012 18:28, Patrick Wacher  wrote:

> Thanks for the article!
>
> Being one of those sad people who missed out on a ticket, I thought i'd
> treat myself a trip to NYC to go see the exhibit at MoMA PS1 this past
> Saturday.
>
> Man was I disappointed. I assumed incorrectly that there would have been
> an exhibition of old photos, artworks, memorabilia and whatnot. I quickly
> learnt that the exhibit was Kraftwerk music vids playing in a big dome.
> Speakers were sooo distorted that I could only stay in there for a whole of
> 10 mins.
>
> Probably my fault for not researching the exhibit info before booking the
> 5 hour flight.
>
> I really needed a t-shirt that said, "I went to the Kraftwerk exhibit and
> all I got was this lousy T-Shirt".
>
> Carry on...
> --
> Patrick Wacher
>
>
>
> On Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Fred Heutte wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/04/30/120430crmu_music_frerejones
> ?
> > currentPage=all
> >
> > Sound Machine
> >
> > How did a pop band end up in a museum?
> >
> > by Sasha Frere-Jones
> >
> > April 30, 2012
> >
> > On an August night in 1981, the German band Kraftwerk played at the
> > Ritz, on East Eleventh Street in Manhattan, in support of its latest
> > album, “Computer World.” The only instruments onstage were actually
> > machines: reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, keyboards, and a
> > calculator. All four members of the group had short hair and dressed
> > identically, in black button-down shirts, black pants, and shiny
> > shoes, which made them look more like valets than like musicians. That
> > didn’t bother them, as they didn’t like the idea of being a band—or
> > even musicians—and often referred to themselves as “operators.”
> >
>
--

(313) track id -- random wav file someone sent me ;-)

[kent williams]

Someone want to claim this? It's kinda good!

http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/UnknownArtist-InMyWorld.mp3

(313) New Music...

[Luis Aguilera]

I hear there's a little road trip coming up for some of us, so I thought
I'd make something to pair it up with. Check out the new FS release (FS005)
I finally got around to finishing and enjoy...

- Luis


http://luisgabrielaguilera.bandcamp.com/





-- 

   - GABRIEL'S 
FIRE
  - LGA BANDCAMP SITE 
  - LGA DJ MIX ARCHIVES 
  - LGA EDUCATION SCOOPS 




"Wisdom is not obtained with the discovery of self-indulgent delectation at
the turn of each page. Wisdom is obtained when one is willing to endure
with humor and compassion a slight bruising of the ego, moving ahead by
correcting whatever faulty notions and formulas to life have been
accumulated over time, remembering and recognizing what has been good all
along. Otherwise, the beast within remains the same. And what a bore that
is."


~ Luis Gabriel Aguilera






-- 

   - GABRIEL'S 
FIRE
  - LGA BANDCAMP SITE 
  - LGA DJ MIX ARCHIVES 
  - LGA EDUCATION SCOOPS 




"Wisdom is not obtained with the discovery of self-indulgent delectation at
the turn of each page. Wisdom is obtained when one is willing to endure
with humor and compassion a slight bruising of the ego, moving ahead by
correcting whatever faulty notions and formulas to life have been
accumulated over time, remembering and recognizing what has been good all
along. Otherwise, the beast within remains the same. And what a bore that
is."


~ Luis Gabriel Aguilera






-- 

   - GABRIEL'S 
FIRE
  - LGA BANDCAMP SITE 
  - LGA DJ MIX ARCHIVES 
  - LGA EDUCATION SCOOPS 




"Wisdom is not obtained with the discovery of self-indulgent delectation at
the turn of each page. Wisdom is obtained when one is willing to endure
with humor and compassion a slight bruising of the ego, moving ahead by
correcting whatever faulty notions and formulas to life have been
accumulated over time, remembering and recognizing what has been good all
along. Otherwise, the beast within remains the same. And what a bore that
is."


~ Luis Gabriel Aguilera

(313) Detroit Techno - live jam

[Tom Langford]

hey all, not one to usually start a mail, apologies if some consider this spam 
or not allowed to post tracks but here goes...

knocked up a afternoon techno jam and thought i'd share it here. feedback/abuse 
welcome :)

http://soundcloud.com/thomas-lang/thomas-lang-amazon

cheers,

tom
  

Re: (313) New Yorker: Sound Machine

[Patrick Wacher]

Thanks for the article!  

Being one of those sad people who missed out on a ticket, I thought i'd treat 
myself a trip to NYC to go see the exhibit at MoMA PS1 this past Saturday.

Man was I disappointed. I assumed incorrectly that there would have been an 
exhibition of old photos, artworks, memorabilia and whatnot. I quickly learnt 
that the exhibit was Kraftwerk music vids playing in a big dome. Speakers were 
sooo distorted that I could only stay in there for a whole of 10 mins.

Probably my fault for not researching the exhibit info before booking the 5 
hour flight.

I really needed a t-shirt that said, "I went to the Kraftwerk exhibit and all I 
got was this lousy T-Shirt".  

Carry on...
--  
Patrick Wacher



On Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Fred Heutte wrote:

> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/04/30/120430crmu_music_frerejones?
> currentPage=all
>  
> Sound Machine
>  
> How did a pop band end up in a museum?
>  
> by Sasha Frere-Jones  
>  
> April 30, 2012  
>  
> On an August night in 1981, the German band Kraftwerk played at the
> Ritz, on East Eleventh Street in Manhattan, in support of its latest
> album, “Computer World.” The only instruments onstage were actually
> machines: reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, keyboards, and a
> calculator. All four members of the group had short hair and dressed
> identically, in black button-down shirts, black pants, and shiny
> shoes, which made them look more like valets than like musicians. That
> didn’t bother them, as they didn’t like the idea of being a band—or
> even musicians—and often referred to themselves as “operators.”
>  
> For the song “Pocket Calculator,” one member triggered percussion with
> a drumstick. Another used a Stylophone, a metal keyboard played with a
> small stylus. Florian Schneider, a founding member, played the
> calculator, which was wired into the sound system, so that pressing
> the keys made audible beeps. His partner, Ralf Hütter, who is the only
> remaining original member of Kraftwerk, sang the lyrics of the song in
> a monotone—an approach that he calls Sprechgesang, or “spoken
> singing”—and played a small Mattel keyboard. “By pressing down a
> special key / it plays a little melody,” he intoned. Schneider
> responded by playing something sort of like a melody with the
> calculator. At one point, Hütter bent down and let the audience play
> the keyboard. Recently, Hütter said, “I wanted to show them that
> anyone could make electronic music.”
>  
> That year, songs from “Computer World” were played on “urban” radio
> stations in New York, such as Kiss-FM and WBLS. The Bronx d.j. and
> hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa was in the audience at the Ritz. He
> had found Kraftwerk’s 1977 album, “Trans-Europe Express,” in a record
> bin several years earlier. “I was just looking at these guys on the
> cover and saying, ‘Whoa, whoa, what the hell is this?’ ” he told me.
> “Wow! Something’s here that’s very funky, and I got to play it for my
> audience.” He added that Kraftwerk’s battery of gear at the Ritz made
> it look as if they were playing “washing machines.” (Because of the
> difficulty of re-creating their recordings with such complicated
> equipment, the band has visited the U.S. only seven times in its
> forty-two-year history. Now they use laptops.) The following year,
> Bambaataa, along with the musician John Robie and the producer Arthur
> Baker, combined the beat of “Numbers,” from “Computer World,” and the
> melody of the title track from “Trans-Europe Express” to create
> “Planet Rock,” an early hip-hop song that spawned a small clutch of
> genres, including electro, Miami bass, and Brazilian baile funk.
> “Computer World,” Kraftwerk’s masterpiece, sold less than a million
> copies, yet its influence has been surprisingly broad—even Coldplay,
> for its single “Talk,” from 2005, has used a melody from the album.
>  
> One song on “Computer World,” called “Home Computer,” has a
> distinctive, ascending arpeggio that feels a bit like bubbles rising
> quickly through mercury. That arpeggio shows up in LCD Soundsystem’s
> single “Disco Infiltrator,” from 2005. It’s also referenced in Missy
> Elliott’s “Lose Control,” from the same year. A few days ago, I was
> walking through SoHo and passed the Uniqlo store, with its painfully
> fluorescent lighting, which illuminates only slightly less fluorescent
> clothing. Nicki Minaj’s hit “Starships,” a savvy combination of
> dubstep and traditional house, was bleeding onto the street. When I
> listened closely, I realized that this version was actually a mashup
> with one of the many songs that has used “Home Computer” ’s arpeggio.
> Maybe it was Kraftwerk, or LCD Soundsystem, or Missy, or someone else
> entirely. It didn’t matter—the sound still signifies newness, joy, and
> some kind of ascent.
>  
> It turned out not only that anyone could make electronic music but
> that almost everyone wanted to. Kraftwerk is perhaps the only group
>