"Post-rock means using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. Increasingly, post-rock groups are augmenting the traditional guitar/bass/drums line up with computer technology: the sampler, the sequencer and MIDI. While some post-rock units prefer lo-fi or outmoded technology, others are evolving into cyber rock, becoming virtual."
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Simon Reynolds in "Shaking the Rock Narcotic", published in The Wire, 1994
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