as in ECHO: Arthur Russell got me hooked. Love how the sound reflects decaying memory or time passed.
as in FERMI PARADOX: A source of humility is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity’s lack of contact with or evidence for such civilizations. The nature for intelligent life to destroy itself and others is among the potential reasons why we haven’t met them. Or that they are monitoring our behavior silently (zoo hypothesis), but communication is impossible because they don’t want to make contact. We must be some lousy temporary jerks if they’re deliberately avoiding us.
as in HAWAIIAN SNOW: Excellent haze.
as in ILLNESS: Illness is a source of inspiration in my music. There’s a history of suicide and mental illness in my family. I like making music that sonically addresses the state of being ill or out of balance.
as in LAZINESS: Astounded that music journalism feels like it has any foothold in shaping cultural discussion or progress. Folds into the larger problem of dying hierarchies of aesthetic distribution and the inevitable quick grabs for content, cool points and ad space. I personally hate reading music websites and magazines because to me the language around music today serves only to dissect and trivialize, and I doubt you will get a remotely accurate picture of this music from a melee of 26 words or phrases that are meant to categorically trace the origins and future projections of something that is changing and I can’t even predict. See A+B and the inadequacy of language.
as in MPC and MACHINEDRUM: Machines that make me happy.
as in J DILLA/JEFF MILLS/JUAN ATKINS: Some Detroit heroes . . .
Read more ABCs at electronicbeats.net 34 EB 4/2012
as in GEORGE CARLIN: Carlin once talked about relating to the stars more than people. In isolation, people are compassionate and good, capable of love and infinite understanding. But as soon as group thought occurs, hatred and separation becomes the standard. Carlin said he had more kinship with the stars because they don’t know the process of social stratification. They can look at him as equals, just more matter in the cosmos.
as in NEARSIGHTED: I’m about halfway to legally blind. I can see clearly less than an inch from my face.
as in KLABUSTERBEERCHEN: Possibly my favorite German word.
as in ORGASM: Apart from music one of the fundamental perks of life.