Just reading trough the latest posts ,
I think if things are heavily brick wall limited ,timbre is lost, as the space the music has to breathe is gone. Kinda like what I said over in the other music post ,if there isnt space for the decay things become crowded and subtleties are lost . Again the reason for 'bit munching' isnt always an aesthetic one ,but an economic imperative enforced by the 'well everybody else does it too' mentality . I guess content plays a huge part in all of this too , I suppose Nirvana are a good example of the quite/loud thing ,the kinda jangley arppegio in the verse ,which gives way to the all systems on full distortion in the chorus ,light and dark ,ups and downs in both volume and tempo ,its just more interesting than blam full frontal assault from 00.00 to 03.15 and a beat/tempo thats regular as the atomic clock. This concept of space in music has kinda been ratcheted down to dead air time in many engineer/producers minds nowadays it seems.
Throbbing gristle ,ahahah heard of them alright ,something to do with that weirdo Genesis P Orridge , I read something before about (him ,shim, her,it , I havent the foggiest to be honest) and Rick Reuben attempting to work together at one point ,wasnt clear exactly what happened ,but the studio caught fire and several people were very lucky to escape with their lives. I believe Orridge attempted to sue Reuben afterwards unsucessfully ,and the whole thing turned toxic and poisonous . I know one old Veteran here of the UK punk rock scene of the 70's and the later punk/art that emerged from it ,had some dealings with afore mentioned as well , keep well clear was the shout out,unless of course your into getting mindfucked humilliated and abused .
Spiritual and emotional torture as a means to an end musically ,not an untested concept in music by any means ,kinda how punk evolved after all .
Psychic tv one here ,Orridges only input, sonically at least ,seems to be his nitrous oxide powered giggles at the very end, he's a 'strange fish' as we'd say here . Again I kinda feel in danger of drawing the fire of the PC/Gender re-alignment brigade over my charachterisations above ,but this endless searching new gender identities and badges just looks horrendously devicive from where I stand ,really just polarises the us and them mentality which is the exact opposite of the claimed goal of equality .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LE-SbwGPM
Lovin this thread by the way ......but lets not get hung up on platitudinousness and having to qualify and almost apologise for posting obscure weird music or opinions for that matter , as long as things remain civil and we dont end up pointing our guns across the table at each other ,were doing a whole hell of a lot better than the rest .
