"this person's not had enough of useless memories" - John Lydon, possibly misheard
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Inside the print edition of the new issue of The Point, there's a superb essay on Retromania by Ben Jeffery. Online there's an excerpt from the essay plus a dialogue between me and Ben about music criticism.
What I'm wondering, and specially as a musician is where to go now? How not to fall into this void that's been left, devouring everything. Should we try to look into a new futurism? The Quietus posted a recent article which in part is interesting, of some bands trying to get re-imagine the future (though a bleak one), the most succesful one which I heard was Justin Broadrick's JK Flesh which mixes recent developments in music, like dubstep with power electronics/noise/metal and sounds very fresh to me...what to do, what to do. How can we free ourselves?
What I'm wondering, and specially as a musician is where to go now? How not to fall into this void that's been left, devouring everything. Should we try to look into a new futurism? The Quietus posted a recent article which in part is interesting, of some bands trying to get re-imagine the future (though a bleak one), the most succesful one which I heard was Justin Broadrick's JK Flesh which mixes recent developments in music, like dubstep with power electronics/noise/metal and sounds very fresh to me...what to do, what to do. How can we free ourselves?
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