Delta 5
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Beauty in eroticism is strikingly expressed by Leonardo da Vinci in his Notebooks: "The act of coition and the members employed are so ugly that but for the beauty of the faces, the adornments of their partners and the frantic urge, Nature would lose the human race. (quoted in Bataille's Erotism: Death and Sensuality, translation by Mary Dalwood.
Bataille goes on to say that:
- "No-one doubts the ugliness of the sexual act. Just as death does in sacrifice, the ugliness of the sexual union makes for anguish. But the greater the anguish—within the measure of the partners' strength—the stronger the realisation of exceeding the bounds and the greater the accompanying rush of joy. Tastes and customs vary, but that cannot prevent a woman's beauty (her humanity, that is) from making the animal nature of the sexual act obvious and shocking. For a man, there is nothing more depressing than an ugly woman, for then the ugliness of the organs and the sexual act cannot show up in contrast.
- Beauty has a cardinal importance, for ugliness cannot be spoiled, and to despoil is the essence of eroticism. Humanity implies the taboos, and in eroticism it and they are transgressed. Humanity is transgressed, profaned and besmirched. The greater the beauty, the more it is befouled. "
- Arthur's Landing track http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C30EF3B82A5996E3
- Also Strut Records has recently risen from its ashes and releases Disco not Disco 3.
The subtitle of this third volume is "Post Punk, Electro, & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974 to 1986" and the CD features the tracks "Mind Your Own Business" [1] by Delta 5, "Crunch Cake" by Isotope, "Your Life (party mix)" by Konk, "Launderette" by Vivien Goldman, "My Spine Is The Bassline (12" edit)" by Shriekback, "Contort Yourself (August Darnell rmx)" by James White & The Blacks, "Love Tempo (rmx)" by Quando Quango, "Sharevari (inst)" by A Number Of Names, "Silent Street/Silent Dub)" by Maximum Joy, "Shake It Right" by Six Sed Red, and "Los Ninos Del Parque (12" mix)" by Liaisons Dangereuses.
