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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
NEW WAVE DUST
John Wiese
Soft Punk
Troubleman Unlimited : 2007
[Buy It]
MILITARY ROAD
Prurient
Pleasure Ground
Load Records : 2006
[Buy It]
UNTITLED
Boyzone
Recycled Music
RRRecords : 2008
[Buy It]
Sometimes I feel certain that all music really does is give shape to the nebulous passage of time. Ambient music makes time into a deep, still pool. Techno dissects it into concise, manageable slices, like a really well organized day planner. Rock breaks it up into an orderly pattern of bright, simple shapes, stacking up as neatly as Yaffa Blocks. Classical music condenses it - an entire mythohistorical saga can unfold in an hour. And harsh noise simply obliterates it. The inutitive choosing of music seems mysterious - why do we need to hear this song, in this moment? - and I wonder if it's all about how we need time to feel in that moment: orderly or chaotic, compressed or expansive, becalmed or vanished. As time-management is probably the single biggest issue in my life (lucky, I know), I find myself attracting to ambient music or noise - depending on whether my mood is at the beatific or destructive end of the spectrum - more and more often. I've posted way more ambient music than noise music here, which I'm rectifying now - call it "difficult listening" day. Woe be to those who snag the songs off of mp3 aggregators without reading the text; may they dial up John Wiese on their iPod at max volume.Labels: brian, noise
posted by Brian
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