I've awaited my copy and I must say it's really the Villalobos style. Don't try seeing it from the klf's point of view but from his view. It's totally remodelled. More KLF004Y style IMHO. If you're into Villalobos, it certainly is a great track. If you're still into the old sound, I can imagine it's not your cup of tea. Maarten
From: theREALmxyzptlk <theREALmxyzptlk@comcast.net> Reply-To: theREALmxyzptlk@comcast.net,"All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> To: Simon Glass <tygerbc@yahoo.com> CC: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF vs Villalolbos... Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:32:37 -0400
Simon Glass wrote:
The same Aphex Twin who, when a courier knocked on his door to collect a remix of a Lemonheads track he was meant to have completed, realised he had totally forgot and gave the courier a CDR/DAT of some random AFX noodlings he had recently been working on? And it appeared on the CD single? =) IMHO just use sites like Juno to 'try before you buy', or file sharing clients if you are so inclined. It's all semantics anyway, and depends on how literally you define 'remix' And I mean "literally" too, as anyone who has heard Squaremeter's KLF 'remixes' will attest. Usually represented by the symbol for M-squared, which i can't represent here, with tracks like 'Kopyright Liberation' Squaremeter take a KLF track, blast it into a million fragments and reconstruct it as something else entirely. But it's pure KLF. Arguably tbc.
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Even when RDJ isn't doing things like that (and I love that anecdote! Can't recall the interview which spawned it), it's quite nearly as hard to spot what he's mixing when he's done. And all you've said is my point exactly. It's impossible to tell whether or not /how much/what source material is used once someone gets to deconstructing and DSP-ing the patient and you don't have to be Jacques Derrida to see that the 'remix' signifier is not as fixed as some might imagine. Personally I see it as more in the KLF spirit to run freely with whatever one chooses and let the chips fall where they may. And like Simon Says, caveat emptor.
jeff
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