A friend of mine just had a track of his released on the new House and
ACID Volume 4 from Definative, and I was listening to the CD. Then this
morning I was listening to the radio, and I heard a track from Banco de
Gaia's L'hassa (SP?) album, and it was a great track, it was nice, but
the damn thing was too tame. I don't mean it wasn't hard, most 'hard'
tracks are too tame as well. I think there is a generic 'IDM' feel or
formula that needs to be avoided, or else it will all stagnate. People
like de Gaia or Moby, or KLF, and even the ORB have all found a niche.
They are professional at what they do, but they lose their edge. The de
Gaia track really sorta bugged me, because it was only one step from a
Deep Forest track (it sounded like a middle-eastern bazzarre), and I
think most agree that Deep Forest is pretty middle of the road IDM. Yeah
thats it, middle of the road. The ORB isn't, but their new stuff sounds
suspiciously like their old stuff, and IDM is intelligent, not stagnant.
Hmmmm....let me see if I can salvage a point out of this. There is a
tameness to be found in some IDM, and I've heard it in Banco de Gaia's
Last Train.. album, and I've heard it in a lot of new European IDM. Hey
is it a European thing? I know IDM is sorta big, and there may even be
mainstream radio stations that play it, hence the tameness? Are you
folks happier there than us (Yay CONSERVATIVE political parties :( )
I just don't want to hear the ORB on EZ-ROCK 103.5 in ten years.
Toshie
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