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To be fair it was *always* just the 'dance' equivalent of prog rock really wasn't it.


Why I liked it!! It certainly wasn't edgy, unless you count King Crimson as edgy.


It's just in 20 years you expect music to move on a bit.

dance, EDM, IDM, electronica...wahtever, seems to be more staid than most. Some of the stuff you hear doesn't sedem to have moved on one iota from Shelley's in Longton frankly, I'm not sure there's another genre that does that, apart from maybe dull overproduced teen-focussed r&b, where artists have to up the ante by getting ever more weird, naked or weird and naked.


It's like the musical equivalent of the Egyptian Empire....ooh egyptian empire...

 

very true of country, though that's not to say there aren't people trying to do intersting offshoots and using country influences in a good way.


I'm not slating dance music, though the vast majority is pants. There is genuinely good stuff out there, but if it doesn't really progress much it's hard to keep your interest up i guess.


That's why I'm a bit mystified why the reverence accorded this realease.


I got it a bit more with My Bloody Valentine after all that had been 23 years, not 13, and Loveless was even more influential than ambient works, plus that sort of JD Salinger efect of doing nowt afterwards. But in the end it was, you know, basically the same stuff, just without bankrupting a record label.

Music that actually endures is music that isnt enhanced by drug use.


Dance music on whilst reading your Guardian on a saturday morning is a big cake,covered with fail icing. See also hardcore Rave on tuesday nights while in the bath and Acid house whilst doing the weekly stack of ironing. Welcome to fail city, enjoy your stay.

  • 3 weeks later...

interstingly a week before that




It's a typically fsol work, if there is such a thing but at least there are apparently some new influences absorbed (alot of jan garbarekesque nordic jazz stuff going on, Bob, run for the hills), though it's in danger of, dare i say it, getting a bit......new agey?

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