the future of rock is in the past.
i like my rock like i like my hot dogs: with a little kraut!
all modern music is retro. there is nothing new happening. there are still bands playing watered down blues riffs, verse-chorus-verse, metronomic boring bull shit. i am an old man. some kid should be making a noise that i can't wrap my head around. i want to hear music without a reference point. music from another planet. the germans got there. sun ra got there. glenn branca got there. but that was 30-40 years ago! what the fuck is happening now! who's breaking ground? and i don't mean some english twat making a synth squeal and belch on top of some stuttering drum machine. we should be beyond rhythm, beyond harmony, beyond tempo. sound should transcend space and time! you should hear it in an instant! it should never evoke a memory, but a feeling. a feeling of a place you are headed to, not a place where you've been.
a feeling of perpetual motion, an uneasy stasis. a hovering, anticipatory feeling. a feeling of hurtling, headlong towards a beautiful pink light that will reveal all of existence in flash, and leave you alone, yet connected, at peace, but yearning for more.
follow the sound, kids.
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