Kode 9 at Audio Poverty

[grievous_angel]

John's bit is comprehensible. Kode's stuff is a bit more challenging!

[goose_step]

i think im too stupid for all this

init, same ere

[tranquera]

Loving AP archives!

[seen]

strictly for those who consider the wire magazine to be 'a bit lightweight'.

very true - makes my ghost dog reference seem very naive

i enjoyed these points

detractors might bemoan the need to give favella funk or kwaito or desi a brand name
however like it or lump it, these forms are always going to exist on the perhiparies for most ppl in the west(s) experience of music
if they arent called something specific then they'll be less absorbable in they're own right...

post-economic music .. do it for the sake of playing it
johns point on the temporality of the 'post'

[h4nz]

K9 and K.E's position was that it doesn't matter if it is true or not because the theory itself is a way of trying to ensure that our vision of the future is restricted to commerce - it is a virus whose main intention is for us to see things in a particular way, whether or not the prediction itself comes true.

They were kind of citing afro-futurism and things like the 'ardkore continuum as possible (more open) ways of considering things in general but music in particular.

It was a bit of a mad weekend, all told.

Hopefully there will be more documentation because a lot of it was great. Steve's book is out on MIT in 6 months apparently but I think the text they delivered on Friday is new.

Steve also has an installation going in Berlin on sonic warfare which is pretty cool.

true.
for me Kode+Eshun sounds quite a perfect collaboration to point out the situation, not only indulging inside of diy, piracy, underground culture but mapping their own audio-viral activities in bass culture with much broader agendas of economics and the meme-driven psychogeographic environment around us. this say may sound too square tho

hes one of the most visionary musician-critic like dj Spooky, dj/rupture imo. and it doesn't spoil his musical strength at all. really looking forward to his book on MIT.

and thanx for yr information about his sonic installation in Berlin, i couldn't really grasp the body of the work itself only with some of its documentation but i love the wittiness of the title "Unsound System" very much

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Sound System is their Weapon.
Sound System is our Weapon.
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[h4nz]

woops sorry i did a double-post..