Chapter Sixteen

Fuck Dance, Let’s Art

8 records, in the order the book names them

• 001

  Hangable Auto Bulb

  AFX

  Richard James, for instance, responded with the inspired breakbeat tomfoolery of AFX’s ‘Hangable Auto Bulb’ EPs and Aphex Twin’s ‘Girl/Boy’ EP.

  Warp
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• 002

  Throbbing Pouch

  Wagon Christ

  After the glacial ambience of his Wagon Christ 1994 debut Phat Lab Nightmare, Vibert veered off into cheesy-but-deranged trip hop with Throbbing Pouch.

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• 003

  Iahora Tahiti

  Vulvaland

  Everyone has their own kind of Vulvaland where they like to go.’ With the second album Iahora Tahiti, ‘It’s like we’ve left Vulvaland and are now ready for adventures.

  both Too Pure
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• 004

  In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze

  Cristian Vogel

  The music that most substantiates Szepanski’s high-falutin’ rhetoric can be found, appropriately enough, on In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze, a double CD tribute assembled by Mille Plateaux following Deleuze’s suicide in 1995 at age seventy.

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• 005

  Firestarter

  The Prodigy

  Where Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ and The Chemicals’ ‘Loops Of Fury’ are gloriously adolescent tantrums in the plastic punk tradition of The Sweet, Gary Glitter and Alice Cooper, Digital Hardcore’s aural insurrection is targeted; Empire and his comrades really believe that noise can bring down the establishment’s walls.

  XL; Mute, 1996
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• 006

  Journey (Paraspace Mix)

  4 Hero

  This explains why Spooky’s own music – tracks like ‘Journey (Paraspace Mix)’ and ‘Heterotopian Trace’ on the compilation Necropolis: The Dialogic Project, ‘Nasty Data Burst (Why Ask Why)’ on the Bill Laswell organized anthology Valis 1: Destruction of Syntax – sound less like contemporary hip hop, more like the neo-Dada collages of British experimental units such as :zoviet*france and Nurse With Wound.

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• 007

  Valis 1: Destruction of Syntax

  Various Artists

  This explains why Spooky’s own music – tracks like ‘Journey (Paraspace Mix)’ and ‘Heterotopian Trace’ on the compilation Necropolis: The Dialogic Project, ‘Nasty Data Burst (Why Ask Why)’ on the Bill Laswell organized anthology Valis 1: Destruction of Syntax – sound less like contemporary hip hop, more like the neo-Dada collages of British experimental units such as :zoviet*france and Nurse With Wound.

  Subharmonic
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• 008

  Songs of A Dead Dreamer

  DJ Spooky

  His debut solo album Songs of A Dead Dreamer is marginally more groove-oriented (trip hop with no return ticket?) but it’s still hard to imagine any American B-boy recognizing this music.

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