"Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. welcome to the drivel blog of "music detractor, Simon Reynolds"
Sunday, August 27, 2017
so fresh and so McLean
at first it's just some really fine electronic music...
and then something seems to happen to them
i suppose in its own way it's quite intense
almost dolphins into the future zone
or verging into ferraro digi-fantasia simulacrum stuff
but it's not simply that they get a bit New Agey and mystical
it's that they start getting into the idea of theatricality - injecting the absurd and zany into electronic music performance
some sorely needed entertainment and visual divertissement
inventors of something they call the McLean Mix
sounds a bit like a Mind Meld idea - duo synergy / symbiosis.... one personality, two bodies
more likely it's their term for a new "total performance" approach" - sonics, video, gestures, costumes, jokes, etc?
" a burlesque involving music boxes, Happy Apple, synthesizer, party favors, and flexatones"
a huge repository of texts by and about Mr and Mrs McLean
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