Music and Clutter

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In 'Count Zero' there's this incredible scene where they land on this planet called Zion, the Rastafari space colony, and everywhere you go you just hear "the Dub", viscous, rolled up out of thousands of raggae tunes all played up and over each other, dense as the ganja fumes.

Right now what I'm listening to over and over is Kylie's 'made of glass' which starts so solid until it splinters and grows, rhythym tripping, notes that clamber over one another to get out of the past back into the present. And she whispers under them, under herself. Under glass. I could snap, shatter.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What else?

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno the kylie song you're talking about, but you should check out the early Terry Riley tape experiments where he takes Harvey Averne's funky soul song "You're No Good" and loops it onto itself so many times that it turns into mush. super great

Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

There's that Flaming Lips thing where you've got 20 boomboxes in a room and they're all slightly out of sync.

Hard to duplicate at home, though (do people even still HAVE boomboxes?).

The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel this way about the Dntel record--like on that song "Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think," where the singer's voice gets cut up and used to make this big choir of looped voices.

mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

listen to any recent Lee Perry vocal production for extreme vocal clutter.

Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

paul lanksy - idle chatter

but i have a feeling this is not what you're looking for

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)


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