Love of religion. Love of country. Love of family. Love
of friends. Love of the team. Love of Jesus, Jehovah, Allah,
Islam, Hinduism, Buddha, Jim Jones, Aum Shinri Kyo, the
Pope. Love of freedom, money, commerce, way of life. Love
of the hunt, the cruise, the pick-up, the kill, the score,
the screams, the fists, the knives, the spit, the shoves,
the tumbles down stairs. Love of the beat.
“Rather than songs of love and unity, I long for audio
of love's irreconcilable differences. Not the lovelorn elegy
or torch song, but crossed strategies and layered content.
Audio in which promise, expectation and momentum are merely
possible byproducts rather than essential elements. Despite
attempts to "get over" past loves, today's patterns
collide with memories of the lost love still longed for,
or the bad relationship never to be repeated. New urgent
desires are fed by outdated themes, samples and techniques.
At risk of invoking another over-used term, I long for songs
of "diversity" - conflicted diversity devoid of
unity. Such diversity does not threaten a future collapse
of contemporary society. Rather, it is a reflection of the
longstanding separatism and divisiveness implied in every
"holy union" whereby social units break down into
cultural microcosms. Empowerment, like love, is when and
where you find it. A perverse mirror of the cut.”
- Terre Thaemlitz
With over 10 full length albums, Terre Thaemlitz is one
of experimental electronic music’s most recognizable
figures
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