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Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-06-05 17:25:09 +0000

No New York

The Contortions are easily the best thing on here. This shit fucking rules and then some. For those who are in the know: do I delver further into the James Chance camp, or am I all set with these four? Still unsold on MARS and D.N.A. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (great name) seems a little too punk by-the-numbers for me.
Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-05 17:28:30 +0000
James White and The Blacks are worth checking out, if only for their shock value(s). Glenn Branca isn't represented at all. Neither is Rhys Chatham. D.N.A. changed when they became a three-piece....again, worth checking out.
Posted by MF DU on 2008-06-05 17:34:36 +0000
Tried to play Chani some DNA (a couple of other records besides the famous Eno comp they and their respective members put out on Avant and Tzadik labels) @ my old apt in White Trashua. It didn't chart well. as far as Chance recommendations: I know nothing past the No New York Comp. Have you looked into the Soul Jazz label? they have a comp called New York Noise that's supposed to be killer. I have yet to meet a Soul Jazz comp that lacks. Word of warning, though: shit is all UK imports. Not cheap.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-06-05 17:42:03 +0000
I know, we're working with a small representation, but ... The Contortions are the only ones who sound like they know how to play their instruments. The others just sound amateurish. I think if D.N.A. had a killer drummer, then I might give them more of a chance. Whoever's in James Chance's rhythm section owns it. And with something that solid behind you can do whatever you damn well please over it and it kills. But I have a beef with people like Arto Lindsay. He sounds like one of these guys who was just content with coming up with his own way of playing. Don'tcha hafta know what the rules are before ya break 'em? And don't get me started with Locus Solus. We all know John Zorn knows damn well how to play and write music, so that just makes Linsday a coattail rider.
Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-05 18:08:49 +0000
No Wave, with the exception of DNA, came and went within the space of a year or so -- a bunch of visual artists reacting to the growing orthodoxy in punk. Lindsay wasn't riding coattails -- he was playing with a bunch of people who were essentially fucking around and playing to other people who were, too. If Eno hadn't happened along, no one would even care.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-06-05 19:31:22 +0000
Good point. I was calling Lindsay a coattail rider with the Zorn crowd.
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