acknowledging our sources & inspiration.
Category: basslines
BASSLINES 9 in zweikommasieben magazin #18: space of involvement
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #18 with the column basslines: space of involvement presenting kries, eisenbrand & rossi’s night fever: design and clubculture, 1960 – today (weil am rhein: vitra design museum, 2018) and denk & von thülen’s der klang der familie: techno, berlin und die wende (frankfurt a/m: suhrkamp, 2014).
BASSLINES 8 in zweikommasieben magazin #17: ding dong vs. pum pum
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #17 with the column basslines: ding dong vs. pum pum, presenting donna p. hope’s inna di dancehall: popular culture and the politics of identity in jamaica (university of west indies press, 2006).
BASSLINES 7 in zweikommasieben magazin #16: I and I
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #16 with the column basslines: I and I, presenting beth lesser’s rub-a-dub style: the roots of modern dancehall (beth kingston, 2012).
BASSLINES 6 in zweikommasieben magazin #15: roots, dancehall, and karaoke
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #15 with the column basslines: roots, dancehall, and karaoke, presenting lloyd bradley’s bass culture: when reggae was king (penguin books, 2000).
BASSLINES 5 in zweikommasieben magazin #14: disruptive patterns
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #14 with the column basslines: disruptive patterns, presenting hardy blechman’s disruptive pattern material: an encyclopedia of camouflage (firefly books, 2004).
BASSLINES 4 in zweikommasieben magazin #13: roots and routes
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #13 with the column basslines: roots and routes, presenting paul gilroy’s the black atlantic. modernitiy and double consciousness (harvard university press, 1993), paul sullivan’s remixology. tracing the dub diaspora (reaktion books, 2014) and nicolas nova’s 8-bit reggae. collision and creolization (near future laboratory/volumique, 2014).
BASSLINES 3 in zweikommasieben magazin #12: the message of the medium
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #12 with the column basslines: the message of the medium, presenting dominik bartmanski & ian woodward’s vinyl. the analogue record in the digital age (bloomsbury academic, 2015).
BASSLINES 2 in zweikommasieben magazin #11: everything can be dub
comfortnoise makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #11 with the column basslines: everything can be dub has no end? (yeah, that’s how the english title should be!), featuring michael e. veal’s dub. soundscapes & shattered songs in jamaican reggae (wesleyan university press, 2007).
BASSLINES 1 in zweikommasieben magazin #10: poltergeists
comfortnoise proudly makes a contribution to zweikommasieben #10 with the column basslines: poltergeists, featuring simon reynolds’ retromania (faber & faber, 2011) and mark fisher’s ghosts of my life (zero books, 2014).
it is accompanied by an illustration that has been specifically created by the zürich based streetartist sierpinski ‘stvan’ triangle (see comfortnoise podcast 039-0413).
à discuter: bartmanski & woodwards “vinyl. the analogue record in the digital age”
although definitively not suitable for philistines, we recommend this book because it contains plenty of fine observations, illuminative insights & useful sociological concepts regarding the cultural value of vinyl records.
below we present quotes that we recognise as conclusions of the authors. (not that we necessarily agree -)
>>> see also basslines column #3
à discuter: simon reynolds “retromania: pop cultures addiction to its own past”
another book (besides mark fisher’s “ghosts of my life”) we recommend because of its stimulating and in the same time offending richness of disparate ideas on music and the development of music culture from the 60ties until now.
below, we present a couple of quotes that we recognise as reynolds’ conclusions. (not that we necessarily agree -)
>>> see also basslines column #1: poltergeists
à discuter: mark fisher “ghosts of my life: writings on depression, hauntology, lost futures, capitalism & the surface noise made by vinyl”
we recommend the following book (besides simon reynolds’ “retromania”) because it makes us reflecting on what we like and what we do, in a clever and at once provoking manner.
below, we present quotes/assumptions that we recognise as crucial for this book. (not that we necessarily agree -)
>>> see also basslines column #1: poltergeists