At 10:52 -0500 05.02.97, Emanuel Borsboom <manny@zerius.victoria.bc.ca> wrote:
quoted 3 lines I've been forcing my friends to listen to "my" music for years now, but it>
>I've been forcing my friends to listen to "my" music for years now, but it
>never really caught on until...
I've also played missionary, attempting to convert pagans into idm/ambient/i-techno believers.
The music which seems most successful for such evangelical purposes, in my experience, is the trance-oriented melodic stuff on Eye-Q, particularly the "Behind the Eye" comps, Cygnus' "HyperMetrical". The Cygnus record, in particular, converted one friend from the statement - "Oh, I can't stand all that boring techno ----" - to "Where can I get a copy?".
Also records like the Ambient Dub and A.D. comps. Another friend, a former pure folk-rock type, recently ran up to me, rabid and frantic, with a copy of "Freezone 2" in hand, ranting "Have you heard this? Have you heard this? Amazing! Amazing!" He seemed to have forgotten, in his rampant enthusiasm, that I was the one who had recommended the record to him. He began playing the "Air" excerpt on the stereo repeatedly, and I nearly induced a stroke by telling the Born-Again IDMer that, in fact, this Namlook cut was only an excerpt from a full-length of the same name. I did not risk charges for involuntary homocide by mentioning the number, not to mention rarity, of actual FAX releases.
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