Absurd
Someone started talking to me on Soulseek about an obscure remix of Ladytron I'm sharing (and I don't even listen to it !! it's crap!)

[kingofsnake] well I hope this mix isn't gonna be a heap of spam ;)
[digiki] ah ah :=)
[kingofsnake] just a little play on words. I really dont know anything about Slam.
[digiki] really ? a uk band with a taste for heavy beats and bassline
[kingofsnake] like a british Timo Maas?
[digiki] hum no... more beats, a mix of house / hiphop beats
[kingofsnake] but he has a little more funky bass I guess or whatever you want to call it. btw I'm exhausting my techno knowlege. I only like so much, because most of it IS spam.
[digiki] :))
[kingofsnake] Even Maas gets boring after a while, but he has plenty of gems. He certainly gave some influence to Apoptygma Berzerks[kingofsnake] 'ok amp let me out' is definetly a maas influenced track

what's the fuck am I supposed to answer here ??!! I mean, I don"t give a fuck about Timo Maas or Slam !!
ok, let's try:
[digiki] yeah sure
[kingofsnake] Do you know what I'm talking about?

ahh fuck !!

ok let's check that bloody cd...

[digiki] yeah you're talking about that track on harmonizer right?
[kingofsnake] yeah the latest one
[digiki] yeah
[kingofsnake] it's a letdown. only good for the Maas and Erasure wanna-be tracks. Then there's the few Apop tracks inbetween that get lost.
[digiki] hum..right

what's next?
"listen man, there are far more interesting things to listen to right now, you know, music is not all about 'house' or 'club' wake up"?

no.... things get worse:
[kingofsnake] d'oh! sorry...I take it you're a fan.

!!!!!! whatsthefuck??! a fan???

[digiki] no no, not really!
[kingofsnake] oh okay. I thought I offended you're interest. I like them too, but I think they didnt' do this well this time around. Speaking of Ladytron, they did a remix for 'until the end of the world.'

...

[digiki] ah really ? I mean, I'm absolutely not in that kind of sounds right now...

hope he would understand... he didn't.

[kingofsnake] Sorry, you're my first Soulseek person to blab too, so I'm gonna indulge. What are you into?

what am I into? good question.
mowaxbapemajorforce?
or datpolitics meets berlin gltich meets parisian avant garde ?
or japanese80s sounds+telex+can+faust+steve reich?
or maybe... japanese cute pop and radiohead and jake thackray?
or hip hop AND beach boys ?
or... plain silence ?
or recontextualisation ?
or brazilian music ?

I dont know. it's too long to explain anywyay.
let's quit this thing now.

[digiki] far more interesting stuff :) I used to dj club sounds but I'm more into.. let's say, "electronica"

let's be... generic.

[kingofsnake] the bands (or most of them) that got that label were unfortunate, because they're shunned as a fad. Damn those marketing geniuses.
[digiki] i really dont care about music labels or marketing :)

which is not true - I'm a man of marketing in a way. And I have ideas about selling products.

[kingofsnake] now playing: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
[digiki] ah i like that...quite long, but interesting

come on: this BoC was far tooo long and boring in the end. But I like some songs.

[kingofsnake] it was just pretty striking to my jaded ears when I took a chance the other day in the used bin.
[kingofsnake] in the light of being post squarepusher, aphex twin, autechre, etc.

then buy the first LP !! far more interesting ! Music has the right to children !

[kingofsnake] I could listen to this and pop in a new Coil disc late at night
[digiki] ah Coil :) yeah why not

why not after all ? he could pop in whatever he wants ! :)
(remember how everything started with Ladytron and Slam ? :))

[kingofsnake] it was humorous when they just came out and called a few of their albums 'musick to play in the dark.' its like they knew.

come on, they knew :)))
and what about the title of my Japan tour cd hum ?

kitchen ?
club mistake ?
winning friends to influence people ? (thanks Nick for this one)
tape catastrophe ?
robots are our friends ?

like I know !

[digiki] they are playing in the dark on most of their tracks, yes. this IS darkness, man :)

come on. Coil !! whatsthefuck am I doing here !! I'm tired !!

[kingofsnake] well they did remix 'panic' admittadly in the dark
[digiki] you can do good music in the dark :))

this is enough. I got to s.l.e.e.p.
and check the 12' white label Diamond Tracks sent me today (!!) life is full of surprises.