29 April 2008

Indies VS Major Labels



a compilation of interviews with indy label people about the state of the music industry

see youtube details for credits

interview I dun with foals a while back



ambience
overdubs and that kind of thing
around the sounds
sounds
doesn’t sounds like
live sound
wordly
joyous
obvious pop songs

modern day indie wu tang clan
bopping
sitek sitek sitek
where it was all raining
77 drummers onstage
way more, sort of much more impact than if you went to scala and went home

sitek sitek sitek
picky b*stard
solid music
he just kept threatening to stab us
go buy me some steak or you’re going to get f*cking stabbed, he said
some big brother-reject, careerist fame hungry thing

24 April 2008

let us speak of shallow, shallow things

‘Am I speaking of dirty things?’ Nietzsche writes in Thus Spake Zarathustra. ‘That does not seem to me the worst thing I could do. Not when truth is dirty but when it is shallow does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.’