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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I said nothing of Jaar insomuch as I didn't type the words "Nico Jaar" in my post, as I've already established. But I'm going to quote back to you my post in full and the post I was replying to, also in full.
It's not like we'd been talking abut Nico Jaar and how he relates to Burial for the previous THREE RESPONSES either, is it? You know perfectly well that I was referring to the Jaar thread when I was talking about someone slighting your opinion, and you've now realised what the words "it all" refer to in the sentence "I'm just curious as to why you're venting it all at Burial." Somewhere in the back of your mind you've realised that you were far too quick to dice my post up and try and get one over on me, and you've gone and made yourself look mighty fucking stupid. Of course, you're SRUSSELL, a man who will make a hundred consecutive posts telling everyone how he doesn't care, so the odds of you admitting to this calamitous error in this thread are slim-to-nil, and instead we've got to put up with a few pages of tedious face-saving manoeuvres from you. But make no mistake, everyone in this thread apart from you is fully aware of your stupidity at this juncture.
Anyway, moving away from YOU CAN'T DEBATE and back towards the point...
I know exactly what your point is, I even spelled it out for you a few posts back. It was just fun watching you trip over the J00F thing. Now draw up your chair and listen closely, because I'm going to impart a rare jewel into this debate; some music knowledge. Something I have in abundance and something you are terribly lacking.
Burial doesn't put the crackles in to imitate vinyl. Much of the crackle he samples is from field recordings of fire, rainfall, air movements and so on. The aim of the crackle is to imitate pirate radio broadcasts. Now you've never listened to any London-based pirate transmissions, so you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I have. In fact, that's how I first heard dubstep, back in 2005. And yes, I'M SO UNDERGROUND, etc. Pirate radio was the prime agent in the dissemination of bass music in London youth culture from the late '80s onwards. It's what Burial grew up listening to. Hipsters don't listen to pirate radio. Hipsters wouldn't dare set foot in the buildings most of those transmissions come from. Pirate radio comes amateur equipment broadcasting out of council block balconies, the sound quality is crackly, and broken and full of static. Sound familiar? All of Burial's music is essentially one gigantic love letter to pirate radio*. His music aims to evoke the raw urban vibes of late night car drives through the London boroughs. It's got nothing to do with hipsters wanting to pretend they're listening to vinyl. People like those crackles because they sound massively fucking atmospheric. Burial is the complete opposite of Nico Jaar, because while Jaar laughably tries to evoke high-brow reference points ("14th Century baroque church music" or whatever anachronistic bullshit he spouted) to add gravitas to his work, Burial elevates something extremely raw and lowbrow into the level of beauty. Which is why it isn't hypocrisy at all.
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I remember my trip to London with my HS back in '99... bringing my walkman along and while looking for radio stations, stumbling across a pirate... which played what I at the time called "really fucked up speed garage". It was like the garage tracks I knew of (Closer Than Close, Sugar Is Sweeter) but with a sort of breakbeat to it. And that's how I fell in love with 2-step. I discovered dubstep and Burial during a time where 2-step faded from the limelight but a few people (almost assuredly Simon Reynolds) mentioned sounds evolved from it.
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