XLR8R TV Ep. 119 Failed by Kode9

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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.

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• 00:00:00

  I'm certainly more excited about music in the last year than I was maybe two years ago. Just branching out from being in the tunnel vision of a genre has helped my enthusiasm levels. I suppose I was mostly playing dubstep, mostly DJing dubstep. The label is mostly dubstep, although quite off-center stuff. A small…

• 00:00:54

  have an affinity to certain strains and you are repelled by certain strains. And then you just gravitate towards music that has the same vibe but is in a different genre. Then things start to get blurry and muddy and interesting. That's where things are at now. Me and Liz. Miracle waiting. Places, spaces, mystical…

• 00:01:54

  Funky has obviously come through Pirate Radio, seen in London, has come from American Funky House, was also you know, really a continuation of UK Garage which dropped off about seven or eight years ago. But the fact is doing stuff with house suddenly makes accessible the whole world of house music that has been…

• 00:02:41

  I teach at the University of East London. Stuff to do with sonic culture, everything to do with sonic culture, from film sound, design, through to history of electronic music. I was on Rinse FM for about five years. And so I used to finish teaching in the afternoon. And I knew a lot of the students were listeners…

• 00:03:47

  The use of sound as a weapon is basically a cultural weapon. I suppose, like, philosophically, one of the things the book does is draws from this strand of philosophy called rhythm analysis, which takes kind of musical concepts, particularly rhythm, and sees and hears the world, not in terms of solid objects or things…

• 00:04:21

  phenomena. Climatic rhythms, physiological rhythms, metabolic rhythms, dancing rhythms, solar rhythms, planetary rhythms, traffic rhythms, sleep rhythms, broken sleep rhythms, ! The compilation is coming out in October. It's a double CD. One CD is old stuff, tracks from myself, Burial, Iconica, Darkstar, Zombie…

• 00:05:28

  I started the label to release my own music. Next thing I know I'm a fucking bureaucrat, filling out forms, going to the bank, going to the post office. That's the dagger in my side really. I wish I didn't get sent so much shit dubstep. I'll just leave it at that. I think. I'll just send them a... I'll just send them…

• 00:06:15

  It's a wonk fail. God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God! God!