Refresher Course Set 3: Vibert, Porcini, Matmos

Well, I’ve made it three days in a row, which makes places the Refresher Course series — and yes, I’m still considering other names for it — 30 posts into the 7,500-plus exploration of this website’s nearing 30-year archive, and it goes back further still because I’ve also posted plenty of pieces that predate the Disquiet’s December 13, 1996, birth.

A bunch of these pieces from today’s clean-up happen to date from around 1996, when the major labels had a (false) sense that electronic music — specifically under the still new “electronica” genre name — was going to solve their financial problems. Also a sign of the times, I felt the need, in the Richards/Extreme interview, to note that an emoticon as sign that we did the interview via email.

One thing I’m having trouble sorting out are tags. If you’re reading along with these old posts and have thoughts on any that are lacking (or low on) tags, lemme know. Thanks.

And yes, I realize that if I do manage to persist in these summaries of the back catalog, it’ll add roughly 750 posts to the website. I hope never to have to revisit those.

Today’s posts are:

▰ A full 1997 interview with Luke Vibert

▰ The Vibert profile that resulted from the above interview

▰ Review of a 1997 reprint of Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello

▰ A 1997 interview with Roger Richards of Extreme label

▰ A 1997 interview with Steven Levy of the Moonshine label

▰ A 1997 interview with Erik Gilbert of the Asphodel label

▰ Short 1997 review of Matmos’ self-titled album

▰ Short 1997 review of the compilation The Knights Who Say Dot

▰ Short 1997 review of a Gianluigi Trovesi Octet album

▰ Short 1997 review of a Funki Porcini album. I was pretty addicted to Funki Porcini.