It's rare that I find myself disagreeing with the Gonzmeister, but this
:
quoted 8 lines how different is what they are doing now from the> how different is what they are doing now from the
> Anti EP? Not a whole lot. It's not necessarily that I'm against the lack
> of structure in some of their songs, it's the fact that what they're
> doing now compared to what they were doing years ago is too simmilar to
> my ears. The one thing that must be avoided at all costs if 'this' music
> is to be a constantly innovative and expanding genre is the relaxation
> into a comfortable mode where its sufficient simply to deliver the
> product that everyone expects from a given artist.
The *genre* has got to innovate or die, yes, but the compulsion to
innovate could be so overriding that all this IDMstuff could just end up
being as ephemeral as novelty records - "jive bunny" & "jordy" come to
mind...
Artists must remain, in however minimal a way, recognizable. Brave and
innovative, yes, but innovation has to have some kind of security. And
in relation to the evolution of the entire genre, particular artists,
recognizable as such, provide that point of consistent security.
What if Duchamp held his message hostage to the need to innovate? It
wouldn't have been half as innovative as it was.
signifier over signified signing off