It doesn't the matter that the music is a bit. Or that this will end up as a. Or even that the idea itself returns yet again and will bite it's tail until.
(please let the truth not be revealed, let the identity founder, let whoever it is just slip silently away; at least, let it have due course, let the prosaic truth turn up when)
This Hardy Boys mystery is irrelevent, a nasty little retrovirus - I don't want to find out who the MMB (though wouldn't it be great if it turned out to be Maurizio Mufti Bianchi?) are, but I like the idea of pretending to be them. More things like this should happen, I think. The internet's easy giving is killing this kind of mystery: even being able to buy Power Electronics et al killed it for me a little.
As Martin Beyond The Implode says in the comments there:
But still, I like the idea of everyone pretending to be everyone else. Before the internet it seemed very possible that those people you were seeing up there weren't really who they said they were. Images couldn't be tracked down easily. I went to see Autechre and Orbital and there was no way to tell if it was them, or just some lackies with a CD player, an echobox and a shuffle function...
In fact, it didn't matter if it was them or not...
Aphex kind of killed that, of course; made the face central, put himself about, made things Rock... but until then, the anonymity was everything, which lent itself to sampler as pirate, sample as unmarked pirate gold: the anonymity was the music and had to be. When Richard James said "I don't use samples" (can't find the source of this, maybe he didn't say that) it was a anti-revolutionary retrogressive act, a Rockist uplift, a return to the old days...
But back to MMB, it reminds me a little of a silly dialogue (followed up by an email conversation) I had with Terre Thaemlitz in the letter pages of The Wire...
See here, for the letters...
I wrote that because it ought to be true. That was 2004, now it really ought to be true.
I wonder.
Maybe we need a partial media blackout. Stop any information leaking out. You can see where Burial was going with this and you should have shivered at the hungry pack, hunting the poor sod down.
Make your next release a release.
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On a semi-related note, I'm not sure if you're aware of the 'black metal' band Velvet Cacoon and their misinformation campaign of a few years ago?
The old surrealist documents blog outlines it pretty well: http://surrealdocuments.blogspot.com/search/label/Velvet%20Cacoon
But, it doesn't mention that before their oft-talked about second album came out, there would often be surfacing fake albums, some new compositions, others 'collages' and that sort of thing with the mp3 tags changed...
Anyway, I think that is a good example of using the net to actually create more mystery and confusion...
no, I'm not aware of it but cheers for the info... misinformation is the ideal kind of information for music i think....
Cool, first time i hear about them, is like the one of monkeys they have never ever show their faces to anyone, i guess that they like to be famous in an anonymous way, pretty cool, huh!?
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