quoted 2 lines Thanks for clearing that up. Who decides what is IDM? I hear alot of
> Thanks for clearing that up. Who decides what is IDM? I hear alot of
> people dissing the Chemical Brothers, because they are popular now.
Well, my own bias against ChemBros (& Prodigy) is not because of their
"popularity" but because they're merely treading the same path that other
people have already done better than them (eg. MBM, J Saul Kane, Weatherall,
all old skool hip-hoppers etc.) and not really adding anything too new or
original to that. Basically the same phenomenon continues than in the
history of all popular music: the original black expression (jazz, R&B,
rock'n'roll) is not good enough for the white mass audiences, so you
need a white artist to do the same thing, and (in many cases) water it
down ("Pat-Boone-ize it") before it's mass-marketable...
transmission from the pHinnWeb Bunker over,
ekku aka nemo
the maintainer of pHinnWeb - the old skool, the nu skool and the pHuture skool
of Finnish electronic music
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