And I know this, right? It’s just that there’s never enough time to explore every last avenue. It is the tragedy of being alive generally speaking: how many missed opportunities might actually have led you to the happiness you’ve sought all your life? You’ll never know; that’s what missed opportunities are all about. For the obsessive recorded-sound-media hoarder, the soul-wrenching question is this: “Do I actually know how I feel about all the music I’ve heard?” Most krautrock stuff has always struck me as pleasant enough; Kraftwerk’s great, of course, and Golem’s pretty cool, too. But I’ve never felt compelled to immerse myself in the genre. It’s never seemed like a pressing matter. And then Ash Ra Tempel’s Join Inn turns up in the mail just in time to completely reinvent my Sunday morning. |
