At 03:53 AM 12/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
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I was under the impression that the music was edited by the artist for video
or radio airplay.
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> We're getting into subjective arguments at this point, but I really can't
> see Tricky/Massive Attack/Nearly God (N.G. shown on the M2 teaser right
> after AMP) as being anything other than slightly evolved Old Music. One
> video per episode max, please.
Old music. Hrmmph. You seem to think that Amp was created under the IDM
banner, and to stray from its charter is to simply err. Well, Amp has only
been defined as a "showcase" for electronic music, and a "journey for your
eyes and ears," and in this context, trip-hop (there I said it) fits quite
nicely. If we must throw about such terms as intelligent, I think Tricky's
use of samples combined with sonic modulation is quite effective in
conveying a mood. BTW, is IDM that's heavily influenced by jazz old music,
or is it the vocals that bother you?
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> Besides "My Kingdom" and "The Box", most of the other videos had
> prominent vocals in them. This isn't representative of our culture;
> this is "let's lure 'em in with crossover appeal". (Vocal stuff -
> Prodigy, C.J. Bolland, Tricky, Underworld, Massive Attack, Fluke; am I
> forgetting anyone ... )
Oddly enough, if you tune in to 120 Minutes or Alternative Nation, you're
likely to see one IDM video, that flick being, invariably, The Box. It seems
so out of place; I would've expected Chemical Brothers to be MTV's gateway
to dance music. The only reason I can come up with for why The Box was
chosen is that it debunks the stereotype of electronic music being composed
of repetitive loops (not an inaccurate representation of the majority of
techno heard in America), plus it has those menacing guitar-like sonic washes.
You're worried that MTV isn't representative of your culture. I could
expound upon that, but suffice it to say that whether you like it or not,
MTV, to a large extent, defines pop culture. Just be glad/terrified it's
headed your "culture's" way.