I really really love John Maus with all my heart.
Schlagwort-Archive:John Maus
Tonight’s the night
- John Maus, Gary War @ Berghain
- Star Slinger, Teams, Dam Mantle @ Chez Jacki
- High Places @ Hau 2
Say whaaat?
Video: John Maus – Hey Moon
All footage is from his show in London last week.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
If I can get up there and nearly have a heart attack every night, if a human being can push themselves to the absolute limit of their physical existence and people can still go ‘What’s the point?’, then that’s the point! To point out how we can’t take our existence for granted.
Audio: John Maus – Castles In The Grave (demo)
Taken from the Upset The Rhythm’s International Tapes Mix.
MIXTAPE: Upset The Rhythm’s International Tapes Mix
Tracklist:
01. GENTLE FRIENDLY – Speaker
02. ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT – Car
03. PEEPHOLES – Tunnels
04. WAY THROUGH – Halfway House (demo)
05. GROUP INERANE – Deran Deran
06. HALO HALO – Manananggal
07. JOHN MAUS – Castles In The Grave (demo)
08. QUIET HOOVES – Can’t Catch A Break
09. KIT – Lazarus Taxa
10. HIGH CASTLE – Crustaceans Demise
11. BOMBER JACKETS – Pauline’s Quirks
12. FUTURE ISLANDS with WAY THROUGH – We’ve Been Here Before (demo)
13. FORMER GHOSTS with ANNIE LEWANDOWSKI – 90245 (demo)
14. THE URXED – Staying At Home
15. TEST HOUSE – I’ll Never Leave
16. ISSUE – 4
John Maus Interview (Altered Zones)
AZ: How do you feel when writers say that your music sounds very ‘80s?
John Maus: I must have done something terribly wrong that I can be so easily be put into this generality of “’80s.” I have no idea what they’re talking about. I mean of course I do, in one sense, but I would totally resist that. If that’s ’80s, what is now? Is it Animal Collective? Is it Wavves? What is the sound of now? Is it Kanye West? What’s right now? And see, I think that’s right now. And moreover, my “’80s.” comes mediated to me through the early work I did with Ariel Pink. I never listened to any of that, aside from in my childhood I may have heard a lot of it, but a lot of these guys– I had no idea who they were until people started telling me I sounded like them. And that’s fine– that stuff is wonderful, and it’s certainly a thread we ought to carry over, but it’s not nostalgia. Maybe it is remembering in the sense that remembering is always mimetic, representational– a singular re-expression of some kind of idea. So it’s not finally a perfect copy. It’s contemporary
Read the whole interview here.
Video: John Maus – Live at Glasslands