tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post8457504488892620205..comments2019-07-02T07:22:25.576-07:00Comments on tics, tics & tics: Nostalgia for Texture, 2.5Andrei Molotiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post-7000167753118184792010-11-05T21:52:28.326-07:002010-11-05T21:52:28.326-07:00Moby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCkoDJkIOc
...Moby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCkoDJkIOc<br /><br />Pauline Oliveros: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GJCL3PpYA<br />(an excerpt of the piece that contains the section I was thinking of)<br /><br />More British rare groove:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAMjpgRZORk<br />(using period samples to create a kind of dream version of late '60s soul)<br /><br />etc etcAndrei Molotiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post-69998934643002323392010-11-05T21:39:30.164-07:002010-11-05T21:39:30.164-07:00By the way, by "Rare groove" here I mean...By the way, by "Rare groove" here I mean not just the obscure vinyl records sought by collectors, but music (growing out of acid jazz/ambient/trip hop/lounge) made with such sounds, and intended to extend that sound world, if you will. And from that point of view, yes, rare groove is positively dripping with elegiacism and nostalgia. Exhibit number one:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ&ob=av2nAndrei Molotiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post-33010981714453409492010-11-05T21:06:27.291-07:002010-11-05T21:06:27.291-07:00Gotta check that stuff out, I don't know any o...Gotta check that stuff out, I don't know any of it (excepting the Beatles), and you might be right; or, in any event, I'll need to sharpen my definitions. Could be I'm looking more for miners in the mother lode that most interests me, which is roughly 1920-1940. Is the rare groove thing as historical retrieval also at least sometimes elegiac? -- I did want to riff on the snap-crackle-pop fetishism of vinyl buffs -- just found some more on the Dresden Dolls' first album, matching their love of my own mother lode -- but I don't have those thoughts quite in order.Peter J. Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822599925761846894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965436484511355077.post-32502812601222738972010-10-31T19:38:11.724-07:002010-10-31T19:38:11.724-07:00How do you distinguish between samples and histori...How do you distinguish between samples and historical "found" sound? It seems to me that a lot of the samples that DJ Shadow, for example, uses are indeed found sound, ingrained with the texture of its history (to begin with, the noise of worn vinyl), and imbued with nostalgia for a certain mythical view of the '60s or early '70s. The whole rare groove thing, after all, is about historical retrieval. There are also Moby's remixes of old gospel recordings (those were his biggest hits, after all). And, umm, Revolution no. 9? From the classical side, there's Pauline Oliveros' gorgeous "Bye Bye Butterfly", Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, some of Steve Reich's pieces such "Different Trains," etc etc etc.Andrei Molotiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.com