gruizig en prettig tag

great initiative frits!

i do tag a lot (flickr, plazes, delcious) but i seriously hate the tagging interface of last.fm, although i have just tagged four artists with 'gruizig en prettig', namely aix em klemm, tape, alva noto and oren ambarchi

so is this lovely description in english or deutsch for me to know exactly what loverly tracks to tag. I assume it's concrete, field recordings, glitch, or what? I can only translate as much dutch as is similar to deutsch. thanks, I like the radio. Have listen for quite a while before joining.

it's not about "concrete, field recordings or glitch" although these genres often fit in. it's about a collection of slow, beautiful, interesting, music with a certain amount of noise/texture which can actually be of almost any genre.

frits said:
it's not about "concrete, field recordings or glitch" although these genres often fit in. it's about a collection of slow, beautiful, interesting, music with a certain amount of noise/texture which can actually be of almost any genre.

That is a very wide definition. Also, the connected labels & artists seem lean towards grainy electronica. Hardly any vocals there, and no non-western music. And what is Ryoji Ikeda doing there? I love his music, but it is as grainless as a sinewave can be.

Anyway, I tried to tag along yesterday but was wondering on some artits/tracks. For instance, Days in the Wake, does that fit in? And how about John Fahey? In my mind there are direct links from Oren Ambarchi and Tetuzi Akiyama to John Fahey and Sandy Bull. Not because they're all guitarists, but because they all play with the stuff betweeen the notes as much as with the notes themselves.

And then there's a whole truckload of grainy music that is just plain old, from scratched records and wax cylinders, like the The Secret Museum of Mankind series and the americana of Dust-To-Digital. Plus one of my favorites, Ostad Elahi, who never visited a proper recording studio (all recordings orginate from 1-track tapes recorded at his home) because music was only the way of reaching the divine. Where, of course, I also struggle with the definition of 'slow' - a lot of Central Asian music is played fast, but develops slowly. I think that's slow, but who am I?

I'm also missing some usual suspects on the connected artists list. No Deathprod? No Bernhard Günter? And maybe the labels Mille Plateaux, Trente Oiseaux, 12K and Line?

And last but not least: Oh so glad to finally have found a group that does not have The Beatles or Radiohead in the charts!

OK I think I've got the concept a bit clearer now. I got abit confuesd by finding artists in the 'connected artist' list that I just discarded as not 'gruizig & prettig' enough.