"Tyranny of Choice" is a rant from Andrew Weatheral, an English music producer-legend, who gave a lecture at the Red Bull Academy, on how he makes decisions while producing a track. He is a huge influence on Markus 'Fred' Scholl by having helped to create "Screamadelica", Primal Scream's epochal psychedelic masterpiece. Musicwise, it has a hip-shaking beat, which was borrowed from Nick Cave's "Grinderman", a clean Sixties guitar theme and some eerie synth tones that turn the light into gloom at the end of the song.
lyrics
Tyranny of Choice
The Arts of Destruction Unraveled
The Tyranny Of Choice
The Plethora Of Ploys
As an idea person
I am asked to use cultural filters
Don’t cross the cheese line
Don’t mess with the quantize
Don’t you ever change keys
more than twice
You’d better throw things in that stick
Use echoes, machines, magic tricks
Established vintage gear, you traded yesteryear
Which run on the verge of giving up the ghost
Take sound back through a valve
Use tape, record reel to reel
Perfection is cold and stiff to our ears
Not what we’re designed for
Without human feel.
The gung-ho-like confrontation
of realizing how uneducated you are
The naivity that resonates is
the ignorance of confidence in youth.
the state of music’s existence
other than in a computer
take it out and give it some air
choose bits not perfect, no loopers
credits
from agendager,
released May 28, 2021
All instruments and decisions made by Markus 'Fred' Scholl
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