FundamentallySound Blog

Momus has used some of my music in some new tracks called the Water Song. One track foregrounds his work, and the "roddy mix" version foregrounds mine. I'm going to work on another remix too, not because I'm not happy with the way it turned out, but because I want to sort of push it in some more extreme directions. He explains the story, with links to the two tracks, in his livejournal entry.

So far, some of the comments posted to his entry are a little less than favorable, seems that people are sort of asking him to return to his singer/songwriter roots, and the word pretentious (yikes!), in reference to his new work, even comes up once or twice.

I can't understand what could be taken as pretentious about it, as he sooo explicitly lays out exactly what he is doing, why he did it, why he's interested in it, there's nothing mysterious or remotely condescending about his approach. I mean, liking it or not liking it, that is one thing, but calling it pretentious? Come on, that's way too much just a cheap shot.

I guess folks really do have conservative ears these days. Anyway, I like what he did in both tracks.