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Some of these is excellent shit. Some of it...emperor's new clothes type shit.
that said, I'll recommend a few things which you probably are familiar with, but...why not?
facemelters-
Tony Conrad - Early Minimalism, especially Four Violins
Richard Youngs - Advent
Arnold Dreyblatt - Nodal Excitations
Mainliner - Mellow Out
Oval - Ovalprocess
Purling Hiss - s/t
Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice
Sun City Girls - Torch Of The Mystics
shit, everything Sublime Frequencies puts out really. Group Inerane is fucking incredible especially.
also
1. this thread and the psych thread should probably be merged.
2. If you like Trout Mask Replica and don't have Lick My Decals Off, Baby, run don't walk.
hey myrrh, that's Incredible String Band in yer sig, yeah?
Yup Incredible String Band it is!
When you play or are interested in certain kinds of experimental music you meet the "emperors new clothes" attitude quite a lot.
Lets say I go to a museum and see a piece of art I don't understand. Just because I don't have the necessary background to understand it, doesn't mean that its a bad piece of art. Some music doesn't make sense before you know a little about the ideas behind it.
Not to say I know that much, but I just think its too easy to dismiss stuff on that basis.
Not to be a dick but I have to disagree on the psychedelic too. A lot of experimental music can be labeled psychedelic such as Mainliner or Sun City Girls but I think few things are further from say Keith Rowe's intention than to make psychedelic music.
I love psychedelic music though!
Peon off Lick My Decals Off Baby is my favorite Beefheart song!
Thing is, I'm pretty familiar with 20 century composition from Stravinsky and Ives to Xenakis and Ligeti and beyond.
Lots of this shit is in the post-industrial realm, too, I know. I've been obsessed with music a long time and have read up on my read ups.
that said, there are a lot of perpertrators out there. if your line of bullshit is good and you can place your shit in the right "context",
you can shit out any kind of noise and have The Wire lick your asshole,
whether there's any musical content or not, whether you've really spent any time with your material or not,
whether you really give a fuck or not.
Is good music dismissed by the uninformed? Yes. Is bad music passed off as something real? Yep, that's also true.
And again, look at the two threads. Lots of overlap. Split hairs all you want - it's all the same people posting about lots of the same shit.
That said...two threads. Sure. Why not?