why i like blippy electronic music: by nicole coxe
in good old-fashioned list form. many of these can apply to instrumental music in general.. though not all blippy-electronic is vocal-free. either way. i love my blips, noodles and bleeps. im not talking super hard-hitting noise-core stuff.. i mean the more pretty, post-rockish electronic stuff. the album leaf. anything on merck records. stuff off ninja tune. her space holiday. four tet. mush records. cinematic orchestra. warp records. the list goes on and on... so here's some reasons why i dig it.
1. honestly.. i like that its just basically a studio project. no need to tour... or really no need to go and see this performed. (though i have... some w/ live bands, which is pretty nice) but generally speaking, its not a big production. no need for a lot of show and tell.
2. its made by nerds on their computers.
3. i enjoy the break from agenda-pushing lyrics. i like both, but sometimes i just need to clear my head. (outside of yoga, where we spend a lot of the time meditating. :)
4. i feel less nervous/stressed while im at work (or at home, or in general)... when i got on the latest from merck. hellzzzyes.
5. makes for nice remixes of songs... blip-it-up..
6. it's the backdrop of her space holiday. and i love all that is her space holiday.
7. it's prrrrrrrrrty. seriously. a lot of the stuff i like feels romantic to me. (dude.. the album leaf was heavily featured in last nite's valentines episode of the oc--enough said)
8. it feels very low-maintenance. i can listen to it any time of day. when im in any kind of mood. because i am a pretty mellow person, its good to have some chill music.
9. there's not really a face to the music. . in a way... its truly about the music. this is the reason that most people argue against it (anyone can do it--its just shit made on the computer--by some nerd...). PRECISELY. i mean, some of these dudes might get write ups in urb, but i dont ever remember much about them and NEVER remember what the hell they look like. and frankly, i like it that way.
10. hipsters havent invaded too hardcore into this genre. sure some of them have found her space holiday.. the album leaf (fuckin' OC!) but they don't know about deceptikon or machine drum or daedelus. so =P
currently listening: tiki obmar- seasons (merck records :)
1. honestly.. i like that its just basically a studio project. no need to tour... or really no need to go and see this performed. (though i have... some w/ live bands, which is pretty nice) but generally speaking, its not a big production. no need for a lot of show and tell.
2. its made by nerds on their computers.
3. i enjoy the break from agenda-pushing lyrics. i like both, but sometimes i just need to clear my head. (outside of yoga, where we spend a lot of the time meditating. :)
4. i feel less nervous/stressed while im at work (or at home, or in general)... when i got on the latest from merck. hellzzzyes.
5. makes for nice remixes of songs... blip-it-up..
6. it's the backdrop of her space holiday. and i love all that is her space holiday.
7. it's prrrrrrrrrty. seriously. a lot of the stuff i like feels romantic to me. (dude.. the album leaf was heavily featured in last nite's valentines episode of the oc--enough said)
8. it feels very low-maintenance. i can listen to it any time of day. when im in any kind of mood. because i am a pretty mellow person, its good to have some chill music.
9. there's not really a face to the music. . in a way... its truly about the music. this is the reason that most people argue against it (anyone can do it--its just shit made on the computer--by some nerd...). PRECISELY. i mean, some of these dudes might get write ups in urb, but i dont ever remember much about them and NEVER remember what the hell they look like. and frankly, i like it that way.
10. hipsters havent invaded too hardcore into this genre. sure some of them have found her space holiday.. the album leaf (fuckin' OC!) but they don't know about deceptikon or machine drum or daedelus. so =P
currently listening: tiki obmar- seasons (merck records :)
posted by n. at 2/11/2005 04:09:00 PM
3 Comments:
hmmm... maybe I shall invest in making electronic music instead of bitching about everything in my schlubby ass life. I think I can score with the chicks and tell them that I worked with DJ Shadow or Amon Tobin or whoever is on Ninja Tune or something.
-J to the EzzeFF, G to the U N izzA to the BizzeE
hell yeah to blippy electronic music.
in the words of daedelus, it's "fAABulous". (ok, so you have to hear him say it, but it's cool how he pronounces it.)
where is my daedelus review? that shit rocked if i may say so myself.
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