tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post3079330004230039290..comments2023-12-08T00:45:09.046-08:00Comments on The Fullfillment* Centre: carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886258675618058752noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post-55216691412740842872007-04-02T15:44:00.000-07:002007-04-02T15:44:00.000-07:00thank you Carl, good to know someone cares about a...thank you Carl, good to know someone cares about all this ...and even knows the existence of such band as Deleyaman and still remembers Colin Newman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post-44689735872909749232007-03-08T14:15:00.000-08:002007-03-08T14:15:00.000-08:00I'm the editor of the US world music magazine Glob...I'm the editor of the US world music magazine <I>Global Rhythm</I>, and have profiled three different metal groups who mixed folk music and native instruments into their sound: Melechesh (Middle East), Korpiklaani (Finnish - they've got an accordionist flexing right alongside the guitarists) and Borknagar (arty paganish Black Metal band who did an acoustic album very much indebted to Scandinavian folk). I'm going to be doing another one in an upcoming issue - Cruachan, an Irish band who sound like the Pogues stuffed into a telepod with Slayer.Phil Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05041604069121995890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post-68908791421358917512007-03-04T14:36:00.000-08:002007-03-04T14:36:00.000-08:00carl i agree with your overall argument, but Funda...carl i agree with your overall argument, but <BR/><BR/>Fundamentally both scenes lack “coolness.<BR/><BR/>when watching a video clip of KODE 9 I felt it was COOL in all the wrong ways - like the commodified vampire Gothic of Bauhaus (Bella Lugosi is Dead) from my own teenage years. Komodified apokalypse. <BR/><BR/>I also feel the whole dubstep thing is culturally exclusive. It cannot be situated properly outside of dissed plant settings in London and to us outsiders, mostly sounds like a poignant vacuum cleaner. <BR/><BR/>In Belgrade this is the kind of music that the pro-Western, quasi-hip young crowd would listen to, the elitists, while the proles would find it depressing. <BR/><BR/>Which for me is insufficiently socially transformative.<BR/><BR/>Will you please explain in which sese the scenes fundamentally lack coolness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com