Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Click opera

Click opera:
"Parappa the Rapper was a big influence on my 1998 album The Little Red Songbook, which embraced monophonic analogue synthesizers in exactly the same way, and for exactly the same reasons, that Parappa embraced flat characters. Moogs had flavour which their digital descendents, attempting to be all things to all musicians, had lost. Moogs had a stronger synth identity. Moogs, once considered cold, were by the late 90s cute and retro and warm, evoking nostalgia rather than future shock. A Moog could help you travel, associatively, through time. To use a Moog in 1998 was interestingly referential, self-conscious, and post-modern. I'm getting nostalgic for the nostalgia just talking about it!"

nothing much to say about this...
just felt like if people were going to be talking about "Parappa" I should link to it...

2 comments:

Justin said...

I'm nostalgic for the nostalgia too.

William Savoie said...

"Kick, punch, it's all in the mind"
Parappa rules.