steve albini, when asked by EDM artist powell if he could sample albini voice clips for his song "insomniac"
"I am absolutely the wrong audience for this kind of music. I've always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the clubs where it was played, the people who went to those clubs, the drugs they took, the shit they liked to talk about, the clothes they wore, the battles they fought amongst each other... Basically all of it: 100 percent hated every scrap. The electronic music I liked was radical and different, shit like the White Noise, Xenakis, Suicide, Kraftwerk, and the earliest stuff form Cabaret Voltaire, SPK and DAF. When that scene and those people got co-opted by dance/club music I felt like we'd lost a war. I detest club culture as deeply as I detest anything on earth. So I am against what you're into, and an enemy of where you come from but I have no problem with what you're doing... In other words, you're welcome to do whatever you like with whatever of mine you've gotten your hands on. Don't care. Enjoy yourself. Steve"
first of all, how can one man be so based?? second, the song actually isn't that bad.. if clubs played shit like this maybe i'd go to them
i mean he didn't really have to go on a long tirade about how much he hates dance music only to be like "yeah sure go ahead"
Kayden Davis
>"Jaded as I am, I can't help but flip seeing a girl and guy of twelve or thirteen, tops, ramming Martel bottles up each other's asses. These are not the Dutch equivalent of abused trailer-park kids, either. They look to be in excellent health and seem to be honestly enjoying this. Makes all the conventional arguments against this kind of thing seem really silly. They're kids. Kids like to play with their own and other people's privates. They're just being photographed at it. Now, people who get a voyeuristic charge out of watching them, like me, I guess, well, we've got some grip-on-reality problems. There's maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it's definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it's as weird as this, it's pretty hard to take."
Gavin Cook
He needs to make sure everybody knows his opinions.
Cooper Nelson
now i just think you're albini posting about yourself
I don't agree with Steve. Except for Kraftwerk. But this track is horribly average.
Jeremiah Robinson
It's a real quote. Sorry that the perfect image of your precious albini is ruined, why don't you cry about it
Zachary Powell
>hates mechanized music >records things Pick one, steve
Lincoln Reed
powell's a cool dude. i emailed him some pictures and he said i was amazing.
Benjamin Collins
I like Albini but christ, what an asshole
Luke Green
powell turned those emails into billboards to advertise the music
William Mitchell
muh analog is superior to filthy digitally recorded club music
Benjamin Gomez
He doesn't say it's superior. He just likes it that way.
Asher Parker
Honestly he just seems like a honest guy with a good head on his shoulders
hating rampant commercialism and genres based entirely on superficiality and mediocrity is natural for somebody who isn't a braindead fucking moron
Carter Ramirez
This (but i am one too and agree with him)
Gavin Foster
Hes actually right girls under 18 are sexier than girls over 18
Dominic Wilson
so embarrassed that I used to admire albini. he's such a self-righteous scum fuck.
Wyatt Sanders
This dork reminds me of kids I used to know in High School >mmm yes, I DETEST club culture and brainless techno music. I, being a sophisticated person who owns obscure records, enjoy electronic music like *insert obvious classics that sound cool when you reference them*.
This dude has always been in perpetual angsty teen mode.
