Went to a Melbourne Film Festival thang last night, "Warp" a collection of music videos from the Warp label that included Squarepusher and Aphex Twin clips on the not-so-big-screen. The screen wasn't as big as I would have liked, and the sound was pretty average (particularly the difference in volume between each video) but good enough. The music, for those not familiar with Aphex Twin or the Warp label was mostly what I'll affectionately call glitchtronic music. Electronic music with loops, lots of electronic sounds, rarely vocals and massive overuse of the CD-skip effect where you're never really sure if the music is supposed to do that or it's time for a new CD player. Many of the clips used similar effects... that is, you wern't always sure if their render software had stuffed up or it was meant to do that. Many clips were like watching the visualiser in your favourite music playing program, only simultaniously ten years in the future and ten years in the past (that is, they were often excellently timed, but made use of poxy early 90's polygons). Some were your traditional clips (you know, with a story and people and stuff) and to me these worked best. More on individual clips later. It goes without saying that Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy and Windowlicker were amazing on the big screen. The scream part of Come To Daddy is about a second short of me getting up and running away crying... it was ten times better on the big screen.
Technical problems with BuyMusic.com. I blame bugs in Windows Media 9 or bugs in their implementation of it. Either way it sucks. What's wrong with an MP3 shop darn it.
One artist is wondering why his music is for sale on BuyMusic.com at all. I blame dodgy record contracts and not reading the fine print ("we own your ass and everything you pull out of it"). [via Slashdot.org]
More fun with words, from BuyMusic.com's agreement:
all downloaded Content is sublicensed to End Users and not sold, notwithstanding use of the terms sell, purchase, order, or buy on the Site or this Agreement.