The Linda Lindas - everyone’s new favourite band

[killer b]

How is that disagreeing with what I was saying? Exactly, the musicians weren't important, what they looked like wasn't important, taking credit for the production personally wasn't important, their background, experience, backstory wasnt important.

There are endless endless tunes and acts that all I knew about them was a white label or a stamp with a silly name . To this day I'm only now discovering who made what tune after some serious digging on the internet, with big names often hiding it.

Or case in point, one of the most revered acts in the rave scene Foul Play, so many huge tunes, were it not for discogs id never know it was 4 guys. And that they also used the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse pseudonym. And so on and so on.

And yes some DJs had respect, but I remember a time before superstar djs was a thing, and the embarrassment of it becoming a thing.

The individual tunes weren't so much a focus is all - they were tools to be used by DJs, which is why superstar DJs inevitably became a thing. It's not really possible to compare with music where the focus is on performance.

I don't think the facelessness of techno is much different from the facelesness of lots of other scenes based around playing records out - disco, northern soul, soundsytem reggae?

 

[Sasaferrato]

So you’ll all have seen their library gig, debuting their song Racist Sexist Boy.

They are genuinely fabulous. They deserve a thread. I look forward to seeing them when they tour.

That is fucking awful. The cat meowed at me, jumped off the bed and stalked out of the room, looking over his shoulder as if to say 'WTF!!!!'.

I know that you are getting on a bit now, have you had your hearing tested?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Reminds me of Mudhoney and other proto-grunge types, crossed with a bit of early White Stripes.

It sounds like a tom cat with it's balls in a mangle.

 

[danny la rouge]

That is fucking awful. The cat meowed at me, jumped off the bed and stalked out of the room, looking over his shoulder as if to say 'WTF!!!!'.

I know that you are getting on a bit now, have you had your hearing tested?

You take musical tips from cats? That explains much!

 

[krtek a houby]

It sounds like a tom cat with it's balls in a mangle.

Bet you said that about Mozart when the young prodigy first strummed the keys

 

[existentialist]

strummed the keys

Everyone knows you don't strum the keys. You bow them

 

[krtek a houby]

Everyone knows you don't strum the keys. You bow them

Well, bow me! Learn something new everyday, etc

 

[ska invita]

I don't think the facelessness of techno is much different from the facelesness of lots of other scenes based around playing records out - disco, northern soul, soundsytem reggae?

definitely - yeah perhaps we are not comparing like with like...not sure about the inevitableness of the superstar dj thing - i guess its inevitable under the laws of the market.

i think a lot of they mythos has grown after the fact, as books got written, tales were told, memories agrandised the past etc

But yeah it is different now i think in that dance music producers put their faces up front now in a way they didnt before

 

[killer b]

definitely - yeah perhaps we are not comparing like with like...not sure about the inevitableness of the superstar dj thing - i guess its inevitable under the laws of the market.

i think a lot of they mythos has grown after the fact, as books got written, tales were told, memories agrandised the past etc

But yeah it is different now i think in that dance music producers put their faces up front now in a way they didnt before

maybe - I don't really follow dance music very closely anymore, but the genres of electronic music I do follow tend to be fairly faceless. I think now there's the internet and everyone is accessible at the punch of a button it probably makes it seem they put their faces up more just because you can actually find them. I'm sure Foul Play et al will have done interviews in the music press, probably with promo shots, but if you didn't read the magazine the interview was in you wouldn't be aware of it.

 

[ska invita]

maybe - I don't really follow dance music very closely anymore, but the genres of electronic music I do follow tend to be fairly faceless. I think now there's the internet and everyone is accessible at the punch of a button it probably makes it seem they put their faces up more just because you can actually find them. I'm sure Foul Play et al will have done interviews in the music press, probably with promo shots, but if you didn't read the magazine the interview was in you wouldn't be aware of it.

true, but i still think there's a higher level of vanity out there now in general
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