I've taken a week off due to being on planes, trains, and automobiles, all the while grappling with the September 2012 @MOJOmagazine covermount that accompanies the article "The 50 Greatest Electronic Records." I adore electronic music but this freebie has really tried my patience. It's compiled by Mute Records founder Daniel Miller, one-time member of The Normal--they of "Warm Leatherette," covered famously by Grace Jones--and he sticks closely to Mute holdings as well as albums represented by a then-current EMI reissue program. What we get, then, is a biased "overview" of electronic music that, I maintain, includes a great deal of third-tier lameness. I've long admired Mute Records, but after this account I'm not sure how that is. There's a smattering of decency here; unfortunately, the best song by hundreds of miles--Metal Fingers in My Body by Add N to (X)--is blocked by Warner, so I'm giving back the obnoxiousness this disc has caused me. Here's a 9-minute 1994 Richie Hawtin tune.   2

covermount 16 Jul 2015

because we're going to see him on friday. yay :)

clurr 1 Dec 2011