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Hyping random Venice
Today, instead of theory and diagrams, I want to give you a song. It's called Timecode and it's a collaboration between Momus and Hypo.
Timecode
This track won't be appearing on Random Veneziano, the new album from Hypo (Parisian Active Suspension recording artist Anthony Keyeux). In fact, this Live Journal entry is the only place Timecode will appear.
Random Veneziano will, however, contain the Momus / Hypo track The Perfect Kill. And there'll be a another Momus / Hypo track called Mount Fuji Fruit Collective on a single due out after the album. Anyone who finds the folky Momus / Anne Laplantine album Summerisle insufficiently poppy may want to listen to these Hypo collaborations to get a taste of what Momuspop might be sounding like at this point. The 'random Venice' suggested by Random Veneziano is perhaps a more logical next step from the 2003 Momus album, Oskar Tennis Champion, than Summerisle. Pursuing a pop direction might indeed have brought me to the glitchy, jaggy, angry, buzzy digital soundscape of this bitmapped Venice rather than the folky glitchy pastoral paradise of Summerisle. From pop to folk, from analog baroque (The Little Red Songbook) to digital baroque (Random Veneziano), from folktronic (Folktronic) to computer folk (Summerisle): the parallel worlds are out there and the choice is yours.
Anthony hasn't so much made a press release for Random Veneziano as a manifesto: a splendidly angry, disgusted rant against the dull formulas of modern pop music which pours bile over journalists and fellow artists like Emilie Simon, Air, Jean-Louis Murat and The White Stripes.
'I hate music as it is made, thought, sold, and understood today...' (Read more...)
Anthony mailed me recently that he can't stop listening to Oskar Tennis Champion. He seems to have arrived at a similar aesthetic -- one which relishes all that's spiky, difficult and strange. He writes:
'The idea of weirdness was also crucial to Random Veneziano. It was about confronting all those so-called distasteful references to exterior elements that don't usually mix with them. That's why the record may sometimes sound like a real circus. Some tracks almost nudge a kind of kitschy ethno-goth. Actually I've especially tried to create unnatural matings -- DCD sodomised by Joe Dassin for instance -- while also allowing some exits; softer tracks such as those featuring Momus or EdH. These songs are simply beautiful. And right in the middle of that, you'll also find stupid stuff that I'd call the poorman's concrete music.'
Summerisle and Random Veneziano are both due for release in April.
Timecode
This track won't be appearing on Random Veneziano, the new album from Hypo (Parisian Active Suspension recording artist Anthony Keyeux). In fact, this Live Journal entry is the only place Timecode will appear.
Random Veneziano will, however, contain the Momus / Hypo track The Perfect Kill. And there'll be a another Momus / Hypo track called Mount Fuji Fruit Collective on a single due out after the album. Anyone who finds the folky Momus / Anne Laplantine album Summerisle insufficiently poppy may want to listen to these Hypo collaborations to get a taste of what Momuspop might be sounding like at this point. The 'random Venice' suggested by Random Veneziano is perhaps a more logical next step from the 2003 Momus album, Oskar Tennis Champion, than Summerisle. Pursuing a pop direction might indeed have brought me to the glitchy, jaggy, angry, buzzy digital soundscape of this bitmapped Venice rather than the folky glitchy pastoral paradise of Summerisle. From pop to folk, from analog baroque (The Little Red Songbook) to digital baroque (Random Veneziano), from folktronic (Folktronic) to computer folk (Summerisle): the parallel worlds are out there and the choice is yours.
Anthony hasn't so much made a press release for Random Veneziano as a manifesto: a splendidly angry, disgusted rant against the dull formulas of modern pop music which pours bile over journalists and fellow artists like Emilie Simon, Air, Jean-Louis Murat and The White Stripes.
'I hate music as it is made, thought, sold, and understood today...' (Read more...)
Anthony mailed me recently that he can't stop listening to Oskar Tennis Champion. He seems to have arrived at a similar aesthetic -- one which relishes all that's spiky, difficult and strange. He writes:
'The idea of weirdness was also crucial to Random Veneziano. It was about confronting all those so-called distasteful references to exterior elements that don't usually mix with them. That's why the record may sometimes sound like a real circus. Some tracks almost nudge a kind of kitschy ethno-goth. Actually I've especially tried to create unnatural matings -- DCD sodomised by Joe Dassin for instance -- while also allowing some exits; softer tracks such as those featuring Momus or EdH. These songs are simply beautiful. And right in the middle of that, you'll also find stupid stuff that I'd call the poorman's concrete music.'
Summerisle and Random Veneziano are both due for release in April.
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(Anonymous) 2004-02-18 11:10 am (UTC)(link)I prefer the one (Perfect Kill) on RV ;)
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Hey, what's with all these anonymous comments, did names go out of fashion?
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(Anonymous) 2004-02-28 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)