quoted 3 lines well...>well...
>presenting:
>"Multsanta's big list of fifteen post rephlex/warp labels to look out for."
they're all GOOD labels, but they're probably not the future of electronic
music. basically, all they offering are tweaks and subtle new tricks on very
traditional forms. that's where we are. that's where we've been. it would be
stagnation or, worse, regression to plow ahead by running in place.
if you want music far ahead of its time, you're talking...
Rastermusic
Mego
Lo Recordings
S?kh?
a-musik
Iris Light
Noise Museum
Switch
VV/M
NTone
Irdial
Soup-Disk
Mille Plateaux
t:me recordings (em:t series)
Plug Research (i generally agree about this one)
these are the mavericks.
they are destined to be underappreciated now, their (often tiny) operations are
hardly able to compete for airspace and page-space with those labels currently
borne aloft on the shoulders of the press as The Messiahs of Electronica [sic].
yet what they are doing is consistently pushing the music forward and dissolving
boundaries. too many of these other labels are putting out reliable - but
admittedly retread - records. but these labels - and many others - are daring to
be different.
progress isn't always lush and harmonic. and you can't always dance to it.
and, c'mon... i'm sure Stuart will be putting out fine music.
but isn't it a little premature to hail a label without a single release as a
herald of IDM's bright future? you may well be 100% right about MFR, but why not
hold off on the plaudits and the back-slapping until we actually HEAR an MFR
record? ;-)
just my $0.02 (or ?.0125)
GuerillaG2-G4/ gg
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