what follows is a 40 minute explaination of where pretty much everyone involved in this sort of thing is coming from. fusing together what seems like thousands of tracks with his inevitable talent, strictly kev has pulled what i think is one of the finest, cleverest examples of mixing i have ever heard. if bootlegs are dead, this is it's eulogy.See the massive tracklist at XFM's The Remix site, who originally broadcast the show). Steinski and Mass Media, Steve Reich, The Beatles, William Burroughs, and more.
Ashley Benigno describes it best:
Layers of mash-up tracks and samples galore seamlessly stitched into 39.03 minutes of utter apology for bastard pop(sters) everywhere. Subtitled a history of cutup, Strictly Kev's tour de force is sophisticatedly streetwise in its academic intentions. It highlights through reinstatement and excitement the castration inflicted by copyright to the building blocks of our cultural conversation. It stresses the polished turn-of-phrase that can be articulated through our common artistic alphabet. It underlines the function of fun.Raiding the 20th Century is like a 21st Century ragamuffin rewrite of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, penned with sound-editing software on a laptop somewhere in the global dystopia of the suburban or inner-city sprawl.
I've been working with the idea of writing as symbolic-analytic work, more about the ability to gather and arrange fragments than about producing something, for Datacloud. It's amazing to see this playing out in a concrete way in practice.
[via notes from somewhere bizarre]
Posted by johndan at January 24, 2004 03:39 PM
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