Latest interview of Mary Harrington by Coleman Hughes is amazing. Everytime I listen or read her, feel I’m learning something from an angle I have not quite noticed before. She talks on how the pill ushered in the sexual revolution and started what she calls transhumanism, people using biology altering technology to remake themselves. Reminds me how people declare musical identities from technology. I never got my head around the celebration of DJs. Why someone playing whatever musical recordings they like is treated like they have musical powers. Aren’t they’re just playing whatever they like in whatever sequence they like? Just turning on a light switch. It is very uncool to say that, last time I shared my view about finding most electronic musicians yawnfests, many lined up to scold or shame me. To quote Leonard Cohen and the voodoo doll, “I’m sorry baby, doesn’t look like me at all”.

Not Aphex Twin mind you, now there’s someone amazing, but the bulk of what comes my way is as exciting as Eno’s ambient collection. Gawd save me from the one finger army. I realize they are playing technology and one could say a guitar or a flute are also technology but the difficulty of one button compositions is not equal in effort to Coltrane’s relationship to saxaphone or Chopin’s technique on piano. The other interesting part are the belief systems. How amazing the time I was asked to play a thirty minute show for free at a University and moments later the same booker asked the DJ within earshot if $700 was enough for their forty-five minute set.