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black dude w/ hat is dj spooky

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

am0n FTW

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Autechre dude on the right is looking into the future, dude on the left is looking at you i.e. the now. I wd like to go walking with these guys and just hang out, like. The Autechre picture is about roots.
-- Noodle Vague

nicely done

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

that mixmaster morris pic is frightening. i had no idea he was so old

am0n, Monday, 10 December 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Whatever happened to Oval?

de.maschine, Monday, 10 December 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know why but i am comforted by the fact that Mixmaster Morris hasn't given up the drugged out early 90s hippie-futurism schtick. <3

rockapads, Monday, 10 December 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Whatever happened to Oval?

The Sharkjump known as Clicks and Cuts Vol 1-4

See also Glitch

See also Navel Gazing

Display Name, Monday, 10 December 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

The machine fetish pics are always a little bit like the archetypal guitarist's pose with his weapon pushed into the camera, but at the same time Jelinek and Micronauts guy are slightly consumed or enwombed by their gear. Is that really what Basinski looks like? Not at all how I'd imagined him. I like that he's looking slightly bemused by the box in front of him like "WTF do I do with this?"

Maybe with the guys pictured without instruments there is some slight suggestion that the music, or their essence as music-makers, is outside of the actual machines themselves. Like primarily their music is a Platonic Form that happily exists prior to making or recording it.

I like this thread. They are mostly good portraits, all else aside. I've wallpapered the Stockhausen.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.artthrob.co.za/04aug/images/calix01a.jpg

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

chantal passamonte

Display Name, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

(she gets more press that young stockhausen...)

Display Name, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/lol/ianjon.jpg

bell_labs, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

lol doing something dirty and primitive in a cave. Nice colours. Jon is looking into the future or playing video games. What do hand scrawls say? "BAD"? "Phiend"?

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

friend

Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

tan sauconies indicate lingering emo tendencies

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

"ban"?

Anyway, young Stockhausen, o_O!!! HA CHA CHA

roxymuzak, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/poleamsee.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/POLEBEIBROTZEIT.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/POLEIMWALD.jpg

These are the three promo pics that came with the new Pole album, Steingarten. They're kinda weird, I've always thought of Pole as a very urban-sounding artist. I guess Steingarten has a bit more "natural" sound to it that his previous LPs though.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

It's a pity Photobucket doesn't allow me to post bigger versions of the pics, but I can tell you he looks quite happy or bemused in the last two.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

ugh makes pole look like the world's dorkiest classical cellist or somethng

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Are the poses meant to be funny/ironic? The one on the pier looks like a catalogue shot. They all do rilly.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/2088891173_5f106fc23f.jpg

Lingbert, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ir was kinda funny opening the pics, because I'd never ever seen a pic of Pole before (even though I've listened to his music for years), and this certainly wasn't what I was expecting. I think it's kinda nice how they go against the grain of typical electronic artist pics though - especially the second one, where he looks like some cozy, middle-aged German family man out on a picnic with his beer tankard.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

It's not really against the grain tho, look at Autechre, BoC, Mira Calix, even Roedelius on this thread. Instrumental music has looooooong history of pastoral associations is perhaps another part of why.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

What I meant by against grain (besides the fact that it makes a lot more sense for BoC than Pole to pose in the woods) is how decidedly goofy and uncool he looks in these. I wish I could post bigger versions of these pics so you could see them better, is there some better site than Photobucket that'd allow it?

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

we can tell how uncool he looks in those pics just fine

moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.uplink.co.jp/factory/log/merzbow.jpg

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who that is, but he looks more like a rocker than an electronic artist.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

(It's Masami Akita aka Merzbow)

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

That makes sense, noise is basically electronic music for metalheads, right?

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

You have much to learn, young grasshopper.

ian, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.scotdebt.net/images/main/page_images/head_in_hands2.jpg

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20070320elpepucul_8/LCO340/Ies/Jean_Michel_Jarre.jpg

snoball, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

(The bald dude is M. Mayer, Tuomas, before you ask.)

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I've never met anyone who'd come to electronic music via the dance side of it, who'd be interested in noise. All noise fans I know are rockers and (ex-)metalheads.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas do you know who El Tomboto is

El Tomboto, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the long-haired guy in the pic above?

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

Well to be fair Stockhausen did put out some blinding Rockabilly 45s before he wrote Kontakte.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

btw dudes in the cave are not electronic dudes but noise dudes with pedals in a cave.

Is dude in jacket Trent Reznor's under achieving little brother.

Display Name, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

Stockhausen was a noise artist? I guess John Cage was a turntablist then.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

How old is that Jarre pic? He looks so young in it.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Steve Reich was the first hip-hop megastar

Just got offed, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

Christ, according to the address the pic is from this year?! Isn't Jarre like 60 now?

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.black20.com/files/fck/nigel(1).jpg

Jean Michel Jarre, yesterday.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, it seems Jarre's put out a new single this year. Both the tune and the video feel like pretty attempts to stay hip with the kids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTa6U7pP6w

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

At least Kraftwerk retain some dignity as they practice the bobsleigh for the next winter olympics

snoball, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IO8M.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Geir Hongro, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

^^^she gets laid more than...oh wait a mo

Just got offed, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

xenakis

http://membres.lycos.fr/musicand/INSTRUMENT/DIGITAL/UPIC/kids.gif

varese (lower right)

http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/varese_making_poeme.jpg

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

That Xenakis pic reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn1LW3wyRrc

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Eno looks like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Silencelamp7.jpg/200px-Silencelamp7.jpg

Malcolm Money, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

He is the second hottest man on this thread.

roxymuzak, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/lauriespiegelstudio80s.jpg

Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.de-bug.de/texte/images/db_images/4178.jpg

scott seward, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

that isn't elaine, is it?

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

oh it's perrey oh god forget I said ANYTHING oh dear PARDON

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

it's eliane

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/1523446683_31beac4337.jpg
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/wp-content/imagebank/ars7.jpg

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

for a sec there i thought it was marge schott, racist ex-owner of the Reds.

sanskrit, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gigolorecords.com/images/large/hell_press_photo___gq__car.jpg

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mobeus.org/archives/juanatkins/Picture01.jpg

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

^^ haha it's j.f. sebastian

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

that's juan atkins right?

sam500, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

Does he have a studio in his mom's attic or something?

NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

ten years pass...

http://lucferrari.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/historique-John-Cage-couche-1958-1024x746.jpg

Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Friday, 17 August 2018 12:41 (seven years ago)

four years pass...

More high jinks with Karlheinz, here literally carrying Toru Takemitsu.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/38/cf/6138cf0c19cfa3e1dfc39eeba222a952.png

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 18:14 (three years ago)


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