So Pitchfork has this Guest List feature in which they have artists run down their favorite things at the moment: music, reading, eating, etc...
Lots of big stars don't get that into it.
Jas and James of Simian Mobile Disco absolutely kill it.
They have some wonderful recs on music and have some very poignant thoughts on the state of electronic music. Ones that I've been fostering for sometime now (evident in the less frequent state of my MP3 posts and my recent DJ sets) and have yet to discuss on this piece.
The Problem with the Ubiquity of Music
I've been finding that I've been going on all the blogs and all that kind of stuff, which is not a good way of getting music because you get all the same shit that everyone else gets
The Problem with the tone of this Ubiquitous Music
I feel that things have gone a bit-- especially with all the Kitsuné, French, very very noisy, very fast and cut up sound-- it's almost like reached fever pitch, people maybe need to take a step back
They go on to recommend you space it out a bit with Chromatics, Turzi, and Chrome Hoof. I'll add A Mountain of One & Map of Africa to that list.
Which is all the more interesting considering I saw Chromatics' labelmates Glass Candy get a very tepid response at PS1 this weekend and label bossman Mike Simonetti have to dig deep to pull out some crazy tribalish records to get people to move. He didn't connect with some awesome spaced out weirdo records (The Doors being one of them) followed by a little bit of classic house (it was 6:30 pm on sunny Saturday afternoon).
I'm all for people dancing to whatever it is that makes you dance and I'm not saying that all of the really crunchy electro coming out is bad (I really, really love most of it) it should just be handled with care and administered with some SOUL.
Of anyone, I especially would not want to see this newfound wave of popularity for dance music be squandered and left to retreat back into the repetitive, emotionless depths of genre-despair.
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