Radiohead: A Moon Shaped POLL

getting into "uptown music" (Babbitt disciples like Charles Dodge and Mario Davidovsky)

Funny you should mention these guys – when I found out about the 'Idioteque' / Paul Lansky connection, I looked up Mild und leise and was woefully disappointed. At the time I was firmly in the 'early electronic music suxxx!' camp – much like Afx when he said Stockhausen should 'stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to' (which is somewhat ironic since I was too shy to dance in my teens). So yeah, you were definitely ahead of the curve there.

It was propinquity, or serendipity, or both. I grew up in a neighborhood adjacent to Columbia University and had neighbors who worked with those guys. They knew I liked weird music- one of them gave me a CD of 'Philomel' for Christmas when I was 15!

I was nerdy in the pre-internet age only in the sense that I listened to middling 60's and 70's bands like Paul Revere and the Raiders at age 9 or 10 instead of Green Day and Nirvana. Kind of parochial. Def not too cool :)

I was into Luc Ferrari around the time of Kid A but didn't know about any of the associated musique concrete stuff at all which is... baffling.

Were there samples or references to other EA compositions than mild und leise?

They sample arthur krieger's 'short piece' from the same 'elctronic music winners' album. That title!!!

*kreiger

Oh wow, they were winning pieces in the first ISCM competition!

Ha!!! I didn't know.

What's the etiquette around sampling two consecutive tracks off the same record in a song? I was under the impression that sort of thing was frowned upon at the time.

i think one is ok, two is definitely frowned upon, but if you do it three or more times it becomes something that is categorically different and maybe even better

relate to people upthread who say OKC felt like a pivotal life moment. it's not like i hadn't heard amazing, ambitious music by that point. i was already a fan of the bends. but OKC came out at exactly the right point: literally the day i finished my GCSEs, just as Britpop's shiny naivete was starting to fade. it felt right

xp You just keep sampling more of it like you're jamming and it'll look like you meant to do it