Subject: (idm) End of the year poll?
our votes for records of the year , can't find the original
mail about the poll , so if these dont register , who
really gives a flying one anyway..
1.black dog - music for adverts lp (warp)
cos ken is such an anti geezer and warp hated it,
one black dog lp is worth a lifetime of any other
artists work.
2.two lone swordsmen - anything (emissions)
cos weatherall ate all the pies , and reinvented
himself as an american house dj - yer don't fool
us andy - i remember the shaggy perm and dodgy
'knitted by me mum' jumpers
3.roupe - entelechy 12" (resource)
ignored by the multitudes , treasured by the few,
most of the good music in 96 went this way..
4.tortoise - millions living lp (city slang)
post rock was more interesting than most electronic
music released in 1996, see fuxa,amp,directions in
music,miss bliss, windy & carl,transient waves,mind
expansion,soundsmith,rome etc etc
5.jimpster - martian arts 12" (freerange)
a downtempo version of squarepusher ,genre hopping
at its finest .
posted in idm digest 890
quoted 3 lines Back to the structure issue, does anyone else think that this
>Back to the structure issue, does anyone else think that this
>'fractured' quality of some releases is a good development for
>electronica, or is it just pissing around?
err. a good bit of 'fracturing' about never did any body any harm, try
listening to 'live evil' by miles davis , makes most of these
polyrhythmic 'electronic' artists seem like cliched 4/4
merchants , and that album was recorded 25 years ago..
From: GD <g-d@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: (idm) WarpNet is...
quoted 4 lines All I can say is...Wicked fun!
>All I can say is...Wicked fun!
>Excellent job with the site so far, and the chat and Warp Mart additions
>will be nice too. BTW is Warp still the official royal purveyor of
>electronic music?quoted 2 lines Kudos to Warp! Once again they've proved to be innovators. The way the
>Kudos to Warp! Once again they've proved to be innovators. The way the
>discography is laid out is brilliant, and soo fast! Did you guys write
all
quoted 1 line your own javascript?
>your own javascript?
yes- i would like to kiss the feet of the creators of this_work of art,
funny but i've never heard as many superlatives heaped upon
a warp record release - perhaps they should take up web design
full time:)...
From: guido@syncnet.xs4all.nl (Guido Klerk)
Date: 16 Dec 96 20:45:13 +0100
Subject: (idm) Aphex's "Milkman"
Weezer says:
> Today I heard Aphex Twin's "Milkman" (From the new RDJ CD) and I'm
> veru sorry to say this but it sucked...
haha - 'milk' ' suck' - it's a joke - geddit ,
From: Andy <ajsolomon@wesleyan.edu>
Subject: (idm) naive D+B?
quoted 8 lines For some reason I was under the impression that jungle/D+B has
>For some reason I was under the impression that jungle/D+B has
>been quite popular in the UK for awhile now, like 7yrs or so, and that it,
>well, just recently has become big in the US etc.
>If that's true then why has it taken RDJ and Mike P so long to do
>D+B stuff? seems like they are jumping on the wagon long after it came...
>sorry, i only got a few hrs sleep and this post is a bit lame-o
>but i would appreciate soe
>articulatiion on the development/hiostory/emergence of D+B, im confused.
rich and mike p are simply open to new sounds and
ideas and incorporate them in an original way into their own music.,
bandwagon jumping is a strong phrase...
quick drum n bass history...evolved from the use of speeded up
breakbeats in 'rave' scene circa 1990/1991 , but people like
black dog were combining breakbeats and electronica with a
lot more finesse as early as 1989 (see 'virtual''age of slack' for ref..),
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