2003-06-18
... ? CTHEORY.NET > Black Secret Technology (The Whitey On The Moon Dub) by Julian JonkerMore specifically, black secret technology is taking white technology apart and not putting it back together properly. Black secret technology is finding the secret life of hi-fi equipment like the Technics SL-1200. Black secret technology is discovering the mis-uses of the Roland TB-303, a machine originally intended to help rock guitarists practice over synthesized basslines, but tweaked in order to create acid house and all its subsequent variations. Black secret technology is George Clinton setting out to find a 'psychedelics of the mixing desk'. Or Lee Perry confessing that his studio had become a "pulsating, unpredictable brain". "It was like a space craft. You could hear space in the tracks."
