From: "Andrew" <ahorton@vt.edu>
I'd just like to take this moment to proclaim Ikue Mori the most overrated, inessential, faux-highbrow performer in modern music. The woman uses drum machines (and now "laptop"- but WHAT PROGRAM? I'm SO SICK OF people just listing "laptop" as their instrument. The laptop doesn't matter- it's what programs are used!) to make horribly uninteresting music, then cooks up pages of FAUX-highbrow jargon and bullshit schematics to "explain" her music. "The matrix array of variables allows for infinite improvisation in a non-static context" and blahblahblah BULLSHIT. If Mori had any guts, she's say "Uhh, I have a laptop with a bunch of samples and I tweak and program them into rhythms and stuff" instead of this bullshit highbrow posturing.
You want someone who makes amazing music with "laptop"? Check out Cex. Fuck Mori.
I haven't heard any Cex., can you recommend any particular album? As far as Mori goes, I'd like to proclaim Mori as one of the more magical figures downtown. Everytime I've heard her play at Tonic (whether with Zeena Parkins, Company, Zorn, etc.) has been an *incredible* delight. Her sounds always make the evening for me. -------- Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin Please visit my website: ==> http://Ljova.com/ "Do not fear mistakes - there are none." -Miles Davis