Altered Zones

Jason "White Knight" Darrah of The Samps says:
Certain "old' music is far newer than "new" music. But that's not the point. The point is to listen to what you LIKE. You just have to know what that IS. in 2010, some '70s & '80s not-forgotten favorites were vinyl-re-issued. Mike Rep (again, this time with much better cover art than in '92), White Boy, Leland, Stan Hubbs, Dwarr. And yes, in 2010 there was a greater quantity of plasticity than in 1966-- one unique to 20XX. We say: the more the merrier. Almost a half-century ago, one famous amphetamine-fueled death dwarf from the East told everyone in the tiny rock room that they had better get used to it, and everyone in their right mind (not many) listened. And it had already happened. The Death and Satan-spawned Re-Birth of Pop. There's mutants everywhere now. Just go to the Church Universal & Triumphant and you will be saved. Or you can rot in hell w/ Cannibal Corpse, Sacrifix, Plague Courier, Portal, and did i mention Michael Jackson?

Nothing lasts. We're only human, aren't we? No, we're plastic. It's all the same thing NOW, and always has been actually. Geddy Lee (he was supposed to be in this mix somewhere but Harland punked out!) is no more plastic than Lee Quinones, and no less plastic than Rammellzee's scary-ass toys. Can someone send us some GOOD NEW RAP so we can stop listening to Suga Free's Street Gospel or Saafir's Boxcar Sessions for the trillionth time? Send us some "Chill Wave" because we still don't know what it is. But you know what? Chillwave actually = "Krautrock". Two, now rock-solid tags invented by seriously funny music authorities for mere practicality. One difference: the music denoted as 'Krautrock" is actually good, maybe the best. It came from real life, historical, severely regretful events, not MySpace hype or yet another teenage kid from the South or Midwest trying to imitate Ariel Pink on MySpace. It also came from, of course, very very good music imported from the U.S., which was handled correctly and with that notorious precision on the other end. Elvis had heard Bo Diddley's music! Don Van Vliet liked Howlin' Wolf when he heard him on the radio in Lancaster. It's black music, reappropriated, wrapped in plastic, and we LIKE it a lot.

And goddammit why hasn't Spontaneous Overthrow, Drexciya, Underground Resistance, Omar S, or Hieroglyphic Being been RE-ISSUED yet???!!!! Turn the other cheek when we instantly trainwreck our entire next live set, in 2014, Detroit. No, in Chicago. Chicago, North Dakota. See ya there.