Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.
Een prachtig citaat, van Nietzsche
nog wel! suggereert
het internet. 🤔
Maar nent. 😔 Maar maakt niet –
“life is music”, prentte ons in een ander tijdperk
Studio Brussel terecht in. En omdat woorden
er soms toe doen, een definitie:
Muziek is 🙌 een in tijd
geordend akoestisch fenomeen: bevat als dusdanig niet noodzakelijk tekst, ritme, of melodie.
Alle muziek heeft inherent bestaansrecht. Ja álle muziek, dus ook, zeer zeker zelfs,
Frans Bauer. Maar hmh, letterlijk alle muziek? Toch liever niet
Sam Gooris.. Omdat er nu eenmaal gelukkig
uitzonderingen mogen, of grenzen aan de goedheid kunnen bestaan. 😅 Hier staat de he.le. dag.
deze of gene muziek op, ze heeft mijn leven lang mijn leven beïnvloed en gevormd.
En zo zal dan morgen het leven verdwijnen 🎶
Verslagen door staal en gewapend beton
🎶 De maan zal dan koud op je nachtmerrie schijnen
Geen mens die nog weet hoe het einde begon.. 🥀
Dat was, merkte Frits onlangs, Louis Neefs, 1970. Nog paar jaar vóór
The Limits to Growth. De hippies visionair? of louter legitiem
bummed door het verdwijnen van groen gras en zeezicht, natuurlijk. En ¿por
qué no los dos?..
Verder hertalen moet 😒 maar er stond nog in het Engels:
Music shaped life. Presumably more profoundly so than books and movies, maybe because
hearing comes before seeing, and reading. 🤔 It also served as a guide and gateway to the other
arts, intermingling with them by way of subject matter, imagery, outright reference, or all of those. One
of my pet peeve subject matters is
life imitating art– zoals dan ook bezongen door Lana Del Rey, en..
eh. No time. ENOTIME
I could elaborate on so many things, if only time allowed. 😒
I'm often grateful to my former self for having been feeding a
last.fm account since late
December of the year of our Lord 2007 (380 CO₂ ppm).
There is the peculiar pleasure and/or benefit of playing music slower.
It truly 🤖 ENHANCEs – yes, a shitty word – a lot of music in
many ways; of course by far not all, and not all to the same extent.
While probably.. ⅗, or ⅝ of the music I hear is devoid of any lyrics at all,
lyrics of course can be quite something. Educational, beautiful,
some even.. ominously prescient. Perhaps. Also, often, annoyingly.. hermetic?
And of course often all, or several of those at once. Or none of them at all; and even then not
redundant at all, porque 🎶 la cuca-maa-rcha, la cucamarcha!
Aside, for most all lyrics I copy/paste here and there, I've come to rely on
Genius.com first (then internet searches, booklet scans on
Discogs perhaps). It's just one of those sites.. I don't know where it came from, nor how I came across it, but
it rarely disappoints, so more than well deserves a mention at least. But les go then, in no particular ord.. hmm
in alphabetical order at least, but otherwise in utterly incomplete, totally ill-considered
total disarray:
Need to collect AMBIENT here.. 🫠 but it makes up.. ⅓? ⅗.. of my listening habits, including several artists not already noted elsewhere in this list, which until just now didn't even mention 🏴 Brian Eno yet.. 😐 ..nor 🏴 Lustmord, arguably the Eno of dark ambient. 🇬🇧 The Caretaker.. Ehh “ambient”.
Troll — “Drep de kristne” may seem a little silly for a slogan in the 1990s, but then of course the entire genre may seem to be that kind of silly. It's art, imagery – who would paint their face for no reason.
🇸🇪 Cold Meat Industry.. As with Galakthorrö ↓ (and gothic and italo disco ↓↓) and Raster-Noton ↓↓↓ below it makes little sense to try and outline the significance of a record label, or genre, in a list item. Already merely 'cause where to begin between Bocksholm(not even on CMI, do I notice only now 🤦), Brighter Death Now, Deutsch Nepal, Raison D'être, and so many more. If only for its title, a fitting highlight album for these, our troubling (troubled?) times would be Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio's Apocalips (September 2006/379). The artist and album over time have become a bit tepid to my taste, but some tracks remain notably exceptional, if not exceptionally notable – like track 8 here: “Let the Words of My Murder Be the Last Words You Hear”.
All manner of 🙌 “GOTHIC”, I suppose. But what all can't be in a word. 😐 It's farrr too broad a designation, much like ambient ↑ up there. There's quite some overlap with NDT ↓ below, and with darkwave and many other vibes and 🌊 waves. It must be why the iconic WGT music festival is called that. “Gothic” as music comes as rock(perhapsay, 🇬🇧 The Cure, for some value, or 🇺🇸 Faith and the Muse, or 🇺🇸 Cinema Strange) and metal(ranging from I suppose maybe 🇺🇸 London After Midnight to 🇳🇴 Tristania), but “gothic” will also refer to a language, a people, architecture, fonts, and all, so.. 🤷 Well, a name, a word – language.
🇮🇹 italo DISCO (“prossima fermata è il futuro..”) ❲Autumn 2025 addendum: while reading up some on Wikipedia, I learned about Disco Demolition Night, a July 1979/337 Major League Baseball promotion event in Chicago – 'Murika “living and letting die” much? 😐 it must be in the genes, mustn't it..❳
🇫🇷 Land: “art is our memory, art is our history, here is our destiny..” want van culturele bagage gesproken: gewoon regelrecht Иди и смотри (naar Come and See, de iconische Sovjetfilm uit 1985), maar ook minder regelrecht bracht ons pakweg Praha met vele jaren vertraging via 🎹 Mili's Carousel (Lovely Acrobatics) naar Morgiana (of retroactief, omgekeerd.. 🤔 same difference)
As they did out of Greater Manchester, out of 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, too, came decades of trailblazing electronics, of an entirely different, ambient kind:
rather prolific Rapoon – good luck to you sifting your way through a thousand-and-counting releases.. luckily “there are. no answers” anyway, as “we live in the dark. we live in a dream.. tell Charlene?”
underrated or maybe just lesser-known because not all that prolificPenumbra – välkommen till Skandinavien, bring your Anoraks for the trip
🇮🇹 Atrax Morgue, the Game Is Closed; one of few artists walking the talk. RIP Marco Corbelli, it's been well over 15 years already..
🇩🇪 Genocide Organ (“waiting for a moment that I know will come”)
🇮🇹 N. – “Sapete dirmi come noi siamo diventati cattivi?”
🇩🇪 Predominance – Hindenburg(“oh the humanity, and all the passengers..” (1937/310))
🇩🇪 Born as Raster-Noton before the turn of the century, Raster-Media has been enhancing the world with lots of marvellous fringe electronics. No point here in beginning to list, and trying to describe quantity and quality of artists such as Alva Noto, Atom™, Ryoji Ikeda, and Senking.
🇨🇦 Vromb, like Rapoon, though luckily not as prolific: one person with a remarkable gift of reshaping and transforming their signature sound, remanifesting themselves over and over for decades on end.. Accordingly demanding dedicated listening effort, rewarding as it rarely turns bland.
🇩🇪 Wappenbund: “Bewegten Herzens danke ich..” – but then rather as an icon of MARTIAL industrial probably.. but then INDUSTRIAL in general would need much more than this mere mention, being a fuzzy, broad term like ↑ gothic above)
Steeds vol van eenvoudige wijsheid, en dat oprecht, dunkt Frits. 🤷
But what all can't be in a word. 😐 It's farrr too broad a designation, much like ambient ↑ up there. There's quite some overlap with NDT ↓ below, and with darkwave and many other vibes and 🌊 waves. It must be why the iconic WGT music festival is called that.
