Monday, December 04, 2006

Skip to the Loop, My Darkling


I'm not a big fan of clothes manufactured to look wrinkled, ripped, faded and beat (though on the right person anything looks good), but I do enjoy the trend of several years now in electronic music of deliberately incorporting the sounds of digital misfirings into new recordings (its predecessor was the trend of recreating analog flaws in a digital setting, preserving vinyl hissing, skipping and popping for a post-vinyl world). The most amusing aspect of it is how the seeming mistakes always draw a listener in as your brain gets tricked into possible-danger mode, sensing as it does something amiss and in need of fixing or fleeing. The genre is called "glitch" and you can listen to a fine example of it here (click on the link Breakbot - chelsea_iNN).