| -----Original Message----- | From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 February 2003 11:47 | | When I say retro it represent how people saw the future in | the early 80's.
Yeah, Steve has a point. Kraftwerk is often referred to as "retro-futuristic" in that their view of the future is quite an antiquated one. If you seriously think about the future today you are thinking of nanotechnology, liquid computers, gelatinous data storage, genetic augmentation, gene-splicing, computer interfaces built directly into the optic nerve... Kraftwerk don't really paint pictures of that sort of future. But my question to Steve is, does Adam Beyer? Does Samuel L Sessions? Do you think that they seriously paint a picture of the future, as it is currently perceived, through their music? I don't think they do, and I don't think that's what they are intending to do either. They are as bad as the people Steve is slagging off, because again they are just remaking the early Axis releases over and over again. I do agree with Steve that there needs to be less focus on older forms of music, less focus on the big names who did wonders back in the past but just play records now, less focus on becoming more "accessible" or incorporating live instrumentation. Music designed to sound old-fashioned is a regressive idea and is not something I'm a particularly big fan of myself. But are people like Beyer really the way forward? I personally don't think so. Brendan
