me, interviewed by the Berlin-based vinyl-phile magazine iCrates, talking about re-edits versus originals (Todd Terje versus Stevie Wonder), the flow of analogue time, and how non-digital formats provide vital impedance to our restlessness (impedance, not impudence as the translation has it...)



incidentally those pix were taken across the courtyard from Dubplates + Mastering, home base of Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, and a temple of the analogue religion

(sigh) Another New York poseur pushing the supposed superiority of retro technology. It's the style of the stuff that appears to this guy, not the actual quality (or lack of it) in scratch records. Go ahead and write your Luddite essays with a crow quill, on ink you make yourself from the lampblack created by your oil lamp.

versus

*yawn* Another supercilious techhead sneering at anyone who worships not at the Altar Of Jobs, dripping with ostentatious condescension. Yes of course, if one likes a thing that's more than ten years old, one must be a caveman, wearing skins and beating his meals bloody. How original.

two polarised reactions in the always fractious and tetchy Salon.com comments boxes, in regards to a piece celebrating vinyl materiality over MP3/iTunes/iPod immateriality




vaguely connected -- this is new book forthcoming from Jonathan Sterne, whose The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction was one of the more interesting tomes I read while researching Retromania -- particularly dug his hauntologically-attuned concept of the vinyl recording as "a resonant tomb" -- groove as grave!