Gone are the gated drums, the keyboard presets, the Synclavier washes in comes a softer, golden glow. All the vocals and drums on Director’s Cut – totalling four tracks from 1989’s The Sensual World, seven from 1993’s The Red Shoes – are new if such a term existed, you could say the overall execution has been to ‘de-80s-fy’ the originals. She’s had the urge to tinker before, sprucing up Wuthering Heights for her 1986 greatest hits, The Whole Story. The problem is less that Bush’s new album consists of old songs than the fact she’s only released one album of new ones in 18 years. A bonus two-minute coda of Talk Talk-style folk-jazz floatiness extends the mood of blissful angst. Instead, it’s just the song’s computer voice, which now resembles 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 rather than a demo on a kid’s Casio. It’s not as if Bush’s own vocal was altered. But as Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens have already shown, Auto-Tune – a pitch-shifting tool typically used to mask defects – can also be used for beauty. How dare she play with our memories? How dare she use Auto-Tune on the chorus vocal? "Butchered" and "almost unforgivable" cried the fansites. Here's a Spotify playlist containing readers' recommendations on this theme.When Deeper Understanding emerged as the first evidence of Kate Bush’s new album of revisions, the instant reaction was surprise tinged with anger. See all the readers' recommendations on last week's blog, from which RipThisJoint selected the songs above. Listen to these songs on a YouTube playlist. Looper – Modem Song Milk Kan – God With an iPod Kate Bush – Deeper Understanding The King Blues – Sex Education Moldy Peaches – Downloading Porn With Davo John Vanderslice – Bill Gates Must Die Grandaddy – Miner At The Dial-A-View Githead – Drive By Varukers – Modem For Destruction Magnetic Man – The Bug Husker Du – Divide and Conquer Public Enemy - 1(PEace) We need to understand that the technology of warfare and greed has led human beings to praise machines for the sake and expense of the human race." As he says elsewhere, "We human beings have only one planet, period. Unfortunately what brings us together will be the very system that tears us apart.Īs ever, Chuck D breaks it down properly for us in Public Enemy's 1(PEace), ranting about the digital life, Twitter, smartass phones, music downloads, corporations, consumption, and humans morphing into machines. Husker Du laments the division of our global geography in Divide and Conquer (1985!), but envisions new computers to link up our global village. Is the bug a virus, a program, a hacker? Not knowing makes the threat only more ominous. "I am the bug in this global community," taunts The Bug in Magnetic Man's dubstep monster, threatening financial devastation, monitoring personal details and communication, natural or unnatural disasters, and more. The Varukers find them both revolting and laughable "taking the piss" in Modem For Destruction. The internet provides community and tools for even the jackbooted, mustachioed lone wolf Stormfront crowd. "You are overloaded / understand nothing in your inbox today," warn Githead in Drive By, drawing parallels between the pressure generated by the intrusion of spam and work life into the private via email to urban mayhem. Grandaddy imagined similar technology five years earlier in Miner At The Dial-A-View in which a native son who has been gone for 15 years watches his former hometown and loved ones helplessly with no way home. John Vanderslice finds the founder of Microsoft a convenient scapegoat when he accidentally on purpose types in words and passwords to enter the dark net world of child abuse through the backdoor in Bill Gates Must Die.ĮarthView in 3D was created by a CIA-funded company, acquired by Google and launched in 2005 as Google Earth (no doubt the low-rent ghetto version, the blue-chip version presumably retained by the CIA to facilitate drone strikes). The Moldy Peaches are busy Downloading Porn With Davo, although getting busted by mama ought to be the least of their worries. Like it or not, internet porn is a Sex Education. For The King Blues, the internet fills in for mum, dad, teacher and preacher – who have evidently failed to explain the particulars of the birds and the bees. Kate Bush foresaw the contemporary paradox of finding friendship, companionship, love, understanding and spiritual fulfilment via a computer at the expense of real life social interaction and relationships in 1989's Deeper Understanding, allowing for the possibility these virtual relationships could actually be more genuine and fulfilling than those in real life.
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