The Peak of P.E.

[HongKongGoolagong]

Seems like he's describing what he does perfectly.

He's done a lot of different styles really from the garbled space-rock of 90s Ramleh and Skullflower to the godawful indie-dance of The Worried Well - the last CE album Crowd Pleaser could be described as PE in some respects but the bizarre lyrical content focuses on things like troubled footballer Paul Gascoigne rather than sex crimes, intense politics and concentration camps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gascoigne#Personal_life

I also think there are too many people making music, but it doesn't bother me as long as I don't have to listen to it all...

There are not enough statements being made about how horribly corny drone music became a few years ago - seemed like every show I went to between 2000-2008 there were some sub-Tony Conrad hipster kids making faux-spiritual and very bland sounds. That annoyed me far more than the cliches of PE or black metal could ever do.

[ImpulsyStetoskopu]

I also think there are too many people making music, but it doesn't bother me as long as I don't have to listen to it all...

What does it mean "too many"? When was the best time with number of PE acts? Probably, according to BEST, in the beginning of 80s when were 5 groups. Total bullshit.

[HongKongGoolagong]

I also think there are too many people making music, but it doesn't bother me as long as I don't have to listen to it all...

What does it mean "too many"? When was the best time with number of PE acts? Probably, according to BEST, in the beginning of 80s when were 5 groups. Total bullshit.

Too many people making every type of music, just too much music! Too much indie/dance/metal/noise-PE/reggae/punk/jazz/soul, too much of everything and too much mediocre stuff and no time to listen to it all.

I do have a great love for all the 80s pioneers of PE myself but also think some good stuff has been done since then and although the field has been narrowed and formularized some artists can find a way of working within those limits and making something special.

Just on a purely personal aesthetic level I love the sounds. I got a copy of that 'White Eye of Winter Watching' compilation recently - simply a joy to listen to and pump up the volume - not to mention the stunning packaging on the special edition. Going yet further off topic, my only contribution to the S&Q track on there was alerting Milovan to a porn movie which could be sampled, he also used it extensively on 'Powerfuck' and that French compilation 7" & CD which I have somewhere...the original movie seems to have been taken offline but here is one by the same director. Still can't decide if he is East Lancashire or West Yorkshire. There are some gems of dialect in this but the other one with the Polish 'schoolgirl' was even funnier. http://xhamster.com/movies/60863/traceys_first_anal_sex.html