[D66] Space under erasure

[R.O.]

Planet X – MetGitarenEnZo


      AllMusic Review by François Couture  [-]
      <https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173#>

It took Planet X <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> 
five years to come up with a follow-up to MoonBabies 
<https://www.allmusic.com/album/moonbabies-mw0000226415>, and the first 
thing fans are bound to notice is the absence of guitarist Tony 
MacAlpine <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tony-macalpine-mn0000744391>. 
On this, the group's third studio album, Planet X 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> is presented as 
a duo -- leader/keyboardist Derek Sherinian 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/derek-sherinian-mn0000200709> and 
drummer Virgil Donati 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/virgil-donati-mn0000216447> -- rounded 
up by guest bassists (Jimmy Johnson 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-johnson-mn0000295984> and Rufus 
Philpot) and guitarists (mostly Brett Garsed 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brett-garsed-mn0000935915>, also fusion 
legend Allan Holdsworth 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allan-holdsworth-mn0000002252> on two 
tracks). You may also find the music veering a little more into fusion 
territory and less into the metal-fusion genre established by the Magna 
Carta label -- and all for the better. In fact, Quantum 
<https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173> is a quantum leap 
above previous Planet X 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> releases: 
stronger compositions (tighter and less flashy), more diversity across 
the album, better-dosed excitement. The resulting music is less in your 
face but just as satisfying, since it welcomes repeated listens. The 
fierceness presented as the band's core is its manifesto of sorts ("a 
band that played so fiercely, it would strike fear..." stated the press 
release for the group's first album), giving way to a more strategic use 
of intensity and better-crafted songs, as "Alien Hip Hop" brilliantly 
illustrates. This album opener simply keeps on building and building 
over the course of its seven minutes. "Matrix Gate" and "Space Foam" are 
vintage Planet X <https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807> 
tracks -- complex time signatures, jammy feel, and a drummer that just 
won't quit. On the other hand, you have moodier pieces like "Kingdom of 
Dreams" or the Holdsworth 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/holdsworth-mn0000002252> feature 
"Desert Girl," laden with jazzy stacked chords and subtler progressions. 
The only piece that does not quite work out is the closing "Quantum 
Factor," its stop-start sections failing to form a cohesive whole; here, 
the band falls back to its early excesses. That minor flaw aside, 
Quantum <https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173> is a 
surprisingly mature album, the kind that could redefine Sherinian 
<https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sherinian-mn0000200709>'s career. 
Recommended. [Quantum 
<https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173> was also released 
with bonus tracks.]

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On 03-08-2020 15:28, R.O. wrote:
> On 03-08-2020 08:11, R.O. wrote:
>> SpaceX net als Malcom-X een dikke kruis door de space. Heidegger en 
>> Derrida maakten er ook een gewoonte van om woorden door te kruisen 
>> (SeinX).
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous_rature
>>
>> To write 'Under erasure' is to write a word, cross it out, and then 
>> print both word and deletion. The word is inaccurate (which itself is 
>> an inaccurate word), hence the cross, yet the word is necessary, 
>> hence the printing of the word. This is one of the principal 
>> strategies of Derrida: "(possibility) of a discourse which borrows 
>> from a heritage the resources necessary for the deconstruction of 
>> that heritage itself".[18] This is similar to the concept of 
>> bricolage coined by anthropologist Lévi-Strauss.
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