quoted 5 lines Who do you think are the most overrated and underrated>Who do you think are the most overrated and underrated
>artists working in IDM?
>
>My vote for overrated has to go to Richie Hawtin. Perhaps I don't have the
>attention span for undeveloped riffs that Plastikman demands.
Jon Drukman summed up my feelings on Plastikman well in his controversial
comments of several months ago (but let's not get into THAT again).
As for underrated, how could it be anybody but Richard Kirk? Put "Lagoon
West," "Harmonic Parallel," and "Exterminating Angel (Outro)" against
*anybody's* three best tracks and see what you think. This guy gets next
to zero press, probably because he's too much of a class act to say
"outrageous" things in interviews or adopt bizarre habits - in short,
he isn't willing to be a publicity whore.
And can we not just have this turn into
Overrated: Artist A
Underrated: Artist B
please? If you don't have anything to say about why you think an artist
is over or underrated (or why a particular Warp release is bad, or what
you like about a particular record cover), then why post? And don't let's
start posting top ten lists again, as is starting to happen on the ambient
list. Nothing gets the D key quicker.
C.
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