The cofounder of the KLF gives 130 years of music industry history and explains why music’s future might depend on not recording it.
Also huffduffed as…
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Bill Drummond Talk
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Bill Drummond: The History of Music, Part 19
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Bill Drummond Talk
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Bill Drummond Talk
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Bill Drummond Talk
Possibly related…
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/Reading: Evan Eisenberg — The Recording Angel
Eisenberg’s a clever and funny writer of features for The Atlantic and The New Yorker. His book is not a history – its an eccentric, anecdotal excursion into the psychology, economics and aesthetics of recorded music and what’s fascinating is that it barely grazes the digital era and serves as a reminder that making a permanent record of the experience of music was awkward and controversial long before the CD and the MP3.
http://bowblog.com/reading/2011/08/evan-eisenberg-the-recording-angel/
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Bill Wasik on Internet-Driven Culture
Remember Susan Boyle? "David After Dentist"? "Keyboard Cat"? All recent internet sensations, and all well on their way to being forgotten for the next thing. Bill Wasik is a senior editor at Harper’s magazine. He’s credited with organizing the first flash mob, in New York City in 2003. He points to similar Web–driven hits (and his own online pranks) to show how the internet has sped up the stream of culture. But not just for celebrities and funny videos: music, news, politics, advertising. Wasik says it all becomes "nanostories" that tumble over each other — "a churning culture of distraction." Bill Wasik looks at how the digital revolution is changing culture in his book, "And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture." He spoke at Town Hall in Seattle on June 16, 2009.
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RC 212: KLF FLM (part one) | Radio Clash Music Podcast & Blog | lapis quasi mergi
It’s little secret that Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, usually known as The KLF and Justified Ancients of Mu Mu are a major influence on mashup, dance and pop culture – and myself personally. Even the intro to Radio Clash contains sneaky KLF elements!
Some KLF rarities and decent quality versions of KLF/JAMs tunes appeared earlier in the year via the excellent KLF Mailing List & KLF.de and this podcast literally would not exist without their help – big thanks! Since their ‘retirement’ in 1992 KLF has entered into lore (and a lot of their creations into obscurity/rarity) but I was there from Doctorin the Tardis and later the second version of What Time Is Love buying the singles each of the Stadium House trilogy on day or week of release – I still have the 7″s!
But before that their 1987 album and sailing in hot (Swedish?) waters with ABBA and sample clearance (or more importantly lack of it) Their hiphop splatter samplepunk early records is what we focus on here in part one – the early days upto the Pure Trance singles, a car making a hit record, The Manual, and the first White Room film, as a broke KLF despair of bankruptcy and a little known track called What Time Is Love takes off in the clubs…
http://www.radioclashblog.com/archives/2011/12/15/rc-212-klf-flm-part-one/