squarepusher egoless music

i found this quote a long time ago on fusionanomaly.net's squarepusher page about port rhombus (fusionanomaly is a lot of fun to browse, though it's not regularly updated):

  Quote

_Port Rhombus_ 12" on Warp (1996)

sound: one of the few drum and bass tracks that has no hint of ego or abrasiveness. very smooth and together, with plenty of intent. intelligence without pretention.

do you think that's an accurate appraisal of that track, and do you know any other tracks that also lack "ego or abrasiveness?" ones that maybe match your personalities?

vordhosbn is another one that i would call "egoless," yet it still retains richard's idiosyncratic and distinctive touches... i think musical egolessness is just artistical honesty

no

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:40 PM, oscillik said:

no

you're kind of mopey and upset about girls and so on though right? i wouldn't expect you to recognize egolessness in music in that case... let's let someone healthy reply

my ego is loling

egoless music?

0:0 NONSENSE IN BASIC

If Squarepusher wrote a nice birthday song for someone he didn't like, when he really wanted to do something else, and did it anonymously, I would consider that to be egoless music. Beyond that I don't know that there is such a thing.

Some one give a definite description of ego. My explanation is kinda vague.

Postmodernists acutally believed or still believe music/art can be egoless. Ignoring the sample-based (black)music that was released around that time

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:42 PM, tht tne said:

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:40 PM, oscillik said:

no

 

you're kind of mopey and upset about girls and so on though right? i wouldn't expect you to recognize egolessness in music in that case... let's let someone healthy reply

that made me do a lol

i like you again now, tht tne. btw, wtf does your name mean! ?

Wat?

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:51 PM, chassis said:

Some one give a definite description of ego. My explanation is kinda vague.

yeah it's hard to explain/define exactly what an ego is.

or how many. *strokes chin*

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:42 PM, tht tne said:

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:40 PM, oscillik said:

no

 

you're kind of mopey and upset about girls and so on though right? i wouldn't expect you to recognize egolessness in music in that case... let's let someone healthy reply

you're kind of asperger's aren't you?

let's let someone healthy reply

That's actually an interesting description.. and it fits so well that I'm struggling to think of any other tracks as egoless as Port Rhombus.

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:40 PM, oscillik said:

no

not to echo thttne.. but in general I think you need a bit more:

  proverb said:

if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all

  On 11/2/2010 at 11:09 PM, Marked x 0ne said:

That's actually an interesting description.. and it fits so well that I'm struggling to think of any other tracks as egoless as Port Rhombus.

 

 

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:40 PM, oscillik said:

no

not to echo thttne.. but in general I think you need a bit more:

 

  proverb said:

if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all

tht tne posed the following question

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:37 PM, tht tne said:

do you think that's an accurate appraisal of that track, and do you know any other tracks that also lack "ego or abrasiveness?"

to which i replied "no".

there is no niceness required, nor was there any mean-ness inferred in my reply.

i wouldn't say tht tne is aspergers at all. i don't know what i'd say tht tne is. but i like him!

  On 11/2/2010 at 11:13 PM, oscillik said:

tht tne posed the following question

 

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:37 PM, tht tne said:

do you think that's an accurate appraisal of that track, and do you know any other tracks that also lack "ego or abrasiveness?"

 

to which i replied "no".

 

there is no niceness required, nor was there any mean-ness inferred in my reply.

i suppose it's just your tone and the way you say things sometimes, oscey. or the way you don't say things, with one word, like a bit of a grumpy arrogant bastard, sort of. cheer up eh! and give out a bit more to your fellow man. :)

I appreciate a healthy dose of tht tne every day

  On 11/3/2010 at 12:48 AM, Capsaicin said:

I appreciate a healthy dose of tht tne every day

i brush my teeth to it!

you can find egoless music in church music and ancient chants and that kind of shit. Only there!

are there different levels of ego in music? like do you hear these hefty doses of ego in coltrane's playing on certain tracks, where on tracks by his fellow pharoah sanders you hear none?

i'm not arguing that i'm right that i can hear the "ego" in the notes a person chooses to play or compose, but i do hear something

coltrane and sanders, compared to 99.9999% of musicians have worked to elimate all traces of "ego" or self in their music, in a way. but i think it's a good example because on Karma Sanders took it further than Coltrane ever did. there is a reason Karma seems to exist completely on its own. without a creator, that is.

yada yada.

jandek?

lol, fUSION Anomaly is still around? I haven't looked at that site in probably 10 years. . . and nothing has changed.

  On 11/3/2010 at 1:11 AM, vamos scorcho said:

coltrane and sanders, compared to 99.9999% of musicians have worked to elimate all traces of "ego" or self in their music

this is is actually what makes it NOT egoless, hope you see my point of view

  On 11/2/2010 at 11:19 PM, sirch said:

  On 11/2/2010 at 11:13 PM, oscillik said:

tht tne posed the following question

 

  On 11/2/2010 at 10:37 PM, tht tne said:

do you think that's an accurate appraisal of that track, and do you know any other tracks that also lack "ego or abrasiveness?"

 

to which i replied "no".

 

there is no niceness required, nor was there any mean-ness inferred in my reply.

 

i suppose it's just your tone and the way you say things sometimes, oscey. or the way you don't say things, with one word, like a bit of a grumpy arrogant bastard, sort of. cheer up eh! and give out a bit more to your fellow man. :)

Ha ha sorry to say it too but Oscillik you do come across as a bit miserable and self indulgent lol. Of course if you're genuinely not like that but merely lacking proper internet communication skills then I take that back. :-)