TOTALLY UNSUCCESSFUL Pop News Round Up

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I was going to link to the Lex's piece on MINIMAL in the Graun, but the swines seem not to have put it on their website so you'll have to just imagine it. It was a good read anyway. OH OK it's here: http://music.guardian.co.uk/electronic/story/0,,2178449,00.html

So instead maybe we'll have to talk about MADONNA in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Anyone? No? Actually has anybody ever met anybody (even online!) who cares about the R&RHOF?

Maybe we'll just have to talk about her new record, "Candy Shop". It's a bit rub. :( EVEN THAT is not news, it's just a demo apparently. It's still a bit rub tho.

Any other pop news out there activating yr prefrontal cortexes?

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Re: LEX PIECE HERE

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Beside the fact that its only a term anyways there is, in classical music, a difference between minimal and minimalist -- mainly to do with straightforwardly repetitive motifs in the latter and material that sounds very pared down in the former, more of a complexity within simplicity.

La Monte kinda of is neither and both; I think he has such a strong relationship with partic strands in Indian classical music that its difficult to say.

All of this is, again, something else to what is being talked about here...would have to listen to more of dance-minimal.

And funnily enough there is a strand in classical, which is basically incredibly pared down -- very few notes, plenty of silences -- so as to exist on the edges of existence that has come about in the last 15 years or so, being around the time when Basic Channel started (?). I'd have to do a bit of homework to date all of this.