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wow that magazine looks ancient what's a laserium? and why did that old man look down on women and the homeless? ![]() anyway i read that he od'ed on cough syrup. i guess the stuff is bad for you. ok im putting my noise cancelling headphones back on bye bye |
1.- I honestly wasn't trolling, just offering what I consider a hilarious perspective from one of the greatest writers ever. And yes, the guy could be mean, he sure as shit wasn't from the "if you dig it, that's all that matters" school. Didn't you watch Almost Famous?
2.- Yeah, I typed it, that issue is 43 years old. How old are you, and does that make you "ancient"? ;):) 3.- Laserium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Dryer 4.- "Old man"?! In April '77 Lester was 28 years old. 5.- He wasn't exactly PC; he followed the Lenny Bruce path - until he did a 180º on the matter, that is, especially with a 1979 piece titled "The White Noise Supremacists". |
well i'm alive in 2021 so i'm from the present ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
and from this perspective i can't give a fuck about what some drunk guy thought was cool in nineteen clackety clack. it has zero effect on my ears. he had his own ears, that was his business. and yeah it all reads very dino-american, sorry. ideologies from a bygone era. i have zero nostalgia for other people's lives. (but if you enjoy that trip, have at it and have a blast--please just don't demand that others do the same) anyway i'm here for the free buffet not the free lecture ![]() this table needs more samples |
now unwinding from a long week with this
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so ive been looking into the history of ambient music for a bit (obvious from td album exploration) and i found this article:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...-ambient-music which led me to this (first time i even hear this band mentioned): ![]() and it's fucking coooooooooooool! i love it! where have they been all my life? i had no idea they existed... brilliant. eta: https://www.groenland.com/en/artist/harmonia-eno76-2/ |
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Yeah man, Michael Rother from Neu! (and Kraftwerk!) and those guys from Cluster! Good stuff. Especially this album. Cluster just released a new EP, too, and it’s pretty good |
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Great album dat. Their next album Deluxe is another corker. Especially the track Wally Tally. |
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![]() and i have it on again hahaha (but the first album cover is the best cover ever) -- and now back on the first album again..."watussi" is so full of surprises. i wonder how this might have sounded to people when it came out! (i hear stereolab in this track btw) ah, it's all incredibly good... |
Harmonia are so great! Cluster is a wonderful rabbit hole. Have fun!!
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I was going to say before that I've been a Cluster and Harmonia fan for ages, and that one of my problems with Tangerine Dream is that the approach and feeling, if not the music itself (well, sometimes the music too), sounds closer to ELP than to the other German bands mentioned, which is why it annoys the crap out of me when all these "Kraut" :rolleyes: acts are lumped together.
Of course, some people would have run as far away from Cluster and Harmonia as possible had I posted that. |
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i don't know, i first heard them in their new agey incarnations etc, and while it was a peculiar sound i didn't enjoy the aesthetics of it so i never returned. but the earlier stuff ive heard is very different--some of it is almost horror movie soundtrack stuff. and they're so prolific it's kinda hard to pin them down. so i try to listen with an open mind until the gag reflex ensues (eg right around tangram) (i used to have this john cale cassette from the 80s that was awful. sure, it was john cale! but that one, not for me. and i love lou reed but... the raven???) in any case the label i find shocking is not kraut anything but the "rock" part. there's nothing rock or rockist about almost anything i've heard in those early records.often there's not even a beat. i think their "kosmische" label was a better fit, although the "space music" that some of that grew into ain't exactly my favorite--pseudospiritual shit for old hippies. Quote:
but yeah, open invitations work well--one has to let the ears hear the music. and taste the tasties ![]() not every dish there is gonna be to everyone's taste, but the principle is that there will be something for everyone in there. so please keep them coming... |
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Spoiler alert: if you found those relaxed... Well, nevermind - your journey continues with Zuckerzeit, Sowiesoso, Cluster & Eno and After The Heat (also with Brian, who happens to be part of Tracks And Traces: the supergroup album to end all supergroups and their bloated supergroupness). As for "ambient", I don't think Cluster 71 and Cluster II qualify. Which takes none of their greatness from them; it's just a different style. |
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found out about harmonia not that long ago myself. i stumbled upon 76 album, colab. between harmonia and brian eno. cool tracks...cool band. |
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i'm listening to this right now ![]() and it's nice and pleasant and i had it on while reading a bit. but doing a little digging i found out i own the earlier release as a cd... i bought it used ages ago and now it's buried somewhere. the back of it looks like this: ![]() having the eno name on it made it less of a surprise when i got it years ago, and i spaced out the harmonia name because it's kinda common in classical music etc. but now having heard actual harmonia by themselves i understand better where it all was coming from... from them! i have to say the earlier harmonia still blowing my mind. and later eno always great. so in a way they worked better separated than together? but it's a nice collaboration, and looks like the consequences were historically superimportant. i love this stuff, hybridizations and such. |
Macca III. It's actually.....good.
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