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offline wimp on 2004-11-19 14:14 [#01400149]
Points: 1389 Status: Lurker



Aaron Mandel reports: (From Pitchfork)
Over the last three years, Scott Herren's fanbase has
watched him rise from Warp Records glitch-hop curio to
perhaps the most singularly innovative force in electronic
music today. This has probably all been kind of weird for
Herren, whose records as Prefuse 73, Savath & Savalas, and
Delarosa & Asora seem to overflow with the hope that
somehow, humans can communicate through all the bullshit.
And as he has no doubt noticed, the bullshit only gets
deeper when more people want a piece of you.

So: We zoom in on our hero, head down, cranking out records
with reckless abandon. Herren's website is now dropping
hints about three or four projects we can expect within the
next year. Probably. Firstly (because we are the most
particularly psyched about it), Herren has finished an EP of
remixes with New York-based electronic duo The Books,
entitled Prefuse 73 Reads The Books. According to the site,
The Books sent him "familiar material and improvs," and
Herren, wearing his Prefuse 73 hat, fixed it up "so you can
bang The Books in your jeep!!!!! CMON!" Tomorrow, we at
Pitchfork will all be buying Jeeps expressly for this
purpose.

Next is a project under the moniker Piano Overlord, which
is, according to Herren, "a restraint experiment for my
usual onslaught of editing and sample usage." Early in 2005,
Chocolate Industries is scheduled to release a Piano
Overlord full-length, currently untitled, that deals with
political issues. We won't front-- we couldn't figure out
exactly which political issues Herren was talking about in
his description of the project (Prison overcrowding? Cheap
Canadian drugs?), but he's promised to donate his profits to
relevant charities, so we don't plan to cast the first
stone. Piano Overlord has already released the accurately
named Tease EP on 12" vinyl via Money Studies Records, like
so:

01 Recuerdas?
02 Walk Home
03 Electric Manatee (Diplo remix)
04 Spring's Arrival (Express Rising remix)


 

offline uviol from United States on 2004-11-19 14:20 [#01400151]
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Over the last three years, Scott Herren's fanbase has
watched him rise from Warp Records glitch-hop curio to
perhaps the most singularly innovative force in electronic
music today.


I've always loved Pitchfork's objectivity.




 

offline uviol from United States on 2004-11-19 14:22 [#01400152]
Points: 2496 Status: Lurker



Over the last three years, Scott Herren's fanbase has
watched him rise from Warp Records glitch-hop curio to
perhaps the most singularly innovative force in electronic
music today.


I've always loved Pitchfork's objectivity.

< /sarcasm>


 

offline wimp on 2004-11-19 14:23 [#01400153]
Points: 1389 Status: Lurker



Regardless of Pitchfork's chronic case of head-up-the-ass,
the news is fantastic.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-11-19 14:35 [#01400155]
Points: 18042 Status: Lurker



I will be taking the Books remix disk to bed and I will be
sexing it.


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2004-11-19 14:49 [#01400163]
Points: 7541 Status: Lurker



I dont know "the Books". What does it sound like (similar
artists...) ?


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-11-19 14:57 [#01400172]
Points: 18042 Status: Lurker | Followup to Combo: #01400163



It's pretty hard to describe until you've heard it.

http://www.bombus.org/thebooksmusic/

I think there's some samples in there somewhere - or at
least a discography - the first song on their first album is
a good introduction, it's called "enjoy your worries, you
may never have them again" - try and find it on slsk or
something.


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2004-11-19 15:01 [#01400176]
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ok thx but i can't use soulseek right now cuz of a stupid
firewall ; gonna listen to samples though


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-11-19 15:38 [#01400198]
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I am looking forward to hearing this quite a lot.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-11-19 17:02 [#01400290]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular | Followup to uviol: #01400152



it's a bloody music webzine not CNN... every arts zine and
every critic and probably everyone on this bloody board has
probably said something similar at some point and time...
try not to let it piss you off...


 

offline uviol from United States on 2004-11-19 17:28 [#01400313]
Points: 2496 Status: Lurker | Followup to DeadEight: #01400290



Nah man, I know. it's all in good fun. However, Pitchfork
has been pissing me off for years with some truly outlandish
statements that are totally uninformed and out of line even
for a webzine, in my opinion. This just set me off again,
my apologies.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-11-19 17:31 [#01400317]
Points: 5437 Status: Regular | Followup to uviol: #01400313



it's probably me... for whatever reason i'm really touchy
about the pfork bashing thing even though i don't give a
rat's ass about the site anymore...

no worries (and reciprocal apologies)


 


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