http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw7pR_MFk5M
The Books are the closest thing to a true audio collage I've ever heard. This music would be art house music; it would be indulgent and masturbatory, if it weren't for the fact that it's good. It's listenable and enjoyable and creates patterns and riffs from the chaotic sampling of a trillion obscure cassette tapes, accompanied by acoustic guitar. It breaks in and out of genres, cuts out partway, but it is not produced. Afuken is produced samples, but The Books sound organic. This is computer-made music, and it reflects the advent of technology in music — but it does not demand attention to the production. It stands alone, the way a novel should, be it written on typewriter or Microsoft Word. I think that is a virtue.
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