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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Matmos’s Drew Daniel’s Book on Throbbing Gristle

posted by on January 10 at 20:33 PM

Did you know he was and/or had done this? From his MySpace bulletin:

Pardon my mass missive but I wanted to spread the word that I am now a published author. Thanks to the trusty/crusty crew of the Continuum imprint, I now have my own contribution to their 33 1/3 series of books, complete with an ISBN number and a Library of Congress Data tag and everything. My book is called Twenty Jazz Funk Greats and it is about the album of said name by the English band Throbbing Gristle. It weighs in at 176 (teensy) pages. It features original interviews with all four members of Throbbing Gristle, some never-before-published photos and/or drawings from their private notebooks, and lots of interpretive blood sweat and tears from yours truly. Check it out!

From the Amazon book description:

Drew Daniel creates an exploded view of the album’s multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, shot through with a sequence of thematic entries on key concepts, strategies, and contexts. (For example: noise, leisure, process, the abject, information, and repetition.) The book argues that on Twenty Jazz Funk Greats, Throbbing Gristle modelled a critically new and highly promiscuous way of relating to or inhabiting musical genre - where punk rock was passionate and direct, TG were arch and mysterious, perverse and cold.

That’s Dr. Drew Daniel, to you. And who better?

R U THROBBING YET?

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1

Yes.

This is going to be awesome (the book, I mean, though the throbbing is pretty great, too).

Posted by segal | January 11, 2008 8:42 AM
2

sonic boom cap hill's got it

Posted by sonic | January 11, 2008 8:59 AM

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