pretty relaxing

sunday afternoon, getting into sunday evening

listening to prefuse 73

wondering if there were any connection between them and my first favourites in the found sound music concrete collage genre - the books... and there is. an e.p. from 2005 on warp

prefuse 73 reads the books - reviewed here on pitchfork

i like sampled documentary style recordings with broken and overlapping beats and riffs throughout and underneath. it's nice to listen to. for some reason i find it immensely relaxing.

i can suffer from stimulation overload, especially after a few hours in front of commercial tv. get a bit twitchy.

makes sense that twitchy music could work as an antidote.

been watching something on dvd this afternoon - finally got a copy of 'overnight', the documentary about a young filmmaker whose unchecked egomania creates a kind of social black hole amongst his unfortunate associates and 'friends'. amazing film. has a lot in common with that other documentary about a deluded american filmmaker, 'american movie'. but where 'american movie' had at it's heart a solid friendship between one creative and one follower, 'overnight' has the richness of several intelligent, sensitive and suffering participants. it's painful, but awesome.

a bit like sun o)))

i never stuck with sun o)))... all the punishment deterred me. i;m not into music for the suffering.

i like jonathan richman, though, with the lessons, and lou barlow, with the raw poetry.

i'm not into theatre of cruelty, sort of the same way i'm not really into goya or the chapman brothers.

i like nice things. and even though it's a bit weird and occasionally challenging, i think 'glitch' music, which covers prefuse 73, the books, the wonderful funkstorung and others, is still a listenable genre.

here's an unofficial promo for prefuse 73's track 'pagina dos'

but i think i'd like to end this post with this video for the books - smells like content

just love this stuff. please make more.



enjoy :)