26^th Oct 2018

MOD(ular?) music

Sound artist Dan Wilson in the studio to explain. I still don’t understand but perhaps after another episode all will become clear. It’s something to do with music originating from chips within old computer technology which was originally designed for video games. Dan brought along a Dell laptop from the 90s with some keys missing which he found in a skip. He played some of his own compositions and others by artist/composers too obscure to remember. One is called Zack Ohren. Dan recorded my voice saying MOD and Jabberwocky which he then translated into a MOD track and played it back via a template from a 1985 movie. Malcolm McLaren discovered MOD music in about 2003 and tried to do something with it but this was long after the pioneers had pioneered it. Seems to be an ongoing genre as one track dates from 2011. To be continued.