standalone · session
Kodwo Eshun on gabber
MACHINE TRANSCRIPT · SELF-TRANSCRIBED (WHISPER ASR) · NOT AN AUTHORISED TRANSCRIPT
Short Eshun clip theorising gabber's apocalyptic sonic intensity; music criticism rather than CCRU theory.
Provenance
Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.
- Series
- standalone
- Duration
- 00:00:51 (~1 min)
- Words
- 134
- Corpus cluster
- audio-land
- Source/billing metadata (unverified)
- Kodwo Eshun
- Topics
- gabber music · sonic velocity · nihilism in music
- Source SHA-256 (txt)
- b5f6111497b1d9a5673532be985f59e1631e16d21bfedcddbb51a1fb7e74ebad
- Source SHA-256 (json)
- 3ac2a14564888f32d2f163c66d02a9fa8ab57688410d42d19d8c25fef5311b2b
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00:00:04
Gabba, both the bass and the kick drum fuse together into a jackhammer motion, which allows a kind of pistoning kind of quality. Gabba, therefore, becomes much more apocalyptic and much more nihilistic because there's no bass anchoring your heartbeat. It becomes kind of heart attack music because the music attains…
00:00:40
And it allows a certain synaptic rearrangement, which is so intense and so strong that it becomes a kind of a pterodome, a war zone. It becomes a kind of how much can you take.