i remember it back then, although i was subscribed using a different email
address.
a friend put me onto it, there was no web to speak of, i was dialing in
through a weird BBS system run from someone's house. weird times indeed :)
On 27 February 2015 at 17:11, Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com> wrote:
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> Yeah -
>
> There are a few of us OG's who have been on this list since the early
> days. I think I subscribed in 1992. This was in a sense largely pre-web
> and the mailing lists and usenet groups were our main source of info and
> were thus quite active (I don't think 100 posts / day was rare at peak?).
> People still physically bought music at a shop, we wore funny JNCO pants
> and went to parties in polluted abandoned factories like the Packard Plant
> and P2P didn't really exist. The sub-genres of the year and darling
> labels (RIP Markant, Musik Aus Strom) have ebbed and flowed but it's always
> been a source of good dialog with the occasional flamewar.
>
> Keep rockin, kids
>
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>
> thanks,
>
> *Jeffrey J Davis*
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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:23 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We always used to say "IDM is an E-mail list, not a music genre."
>>
>> And then we were wrong.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:30 AM wesley.macdonald <
>> wesley.macdonald@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.europopmusic.eu/Newsletters/History_electronic_music_part_8.html
>>>
>>> Seems like the idm list was instrumental in shaping the concept.....
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: stubbornstorm <stubbornstorm@gmail.com>
>>> Date:27/02/2015 15:23 (GMT+00:00)
>>> To: idm@hyperreal.org
>>> Subject: Re: Is the UK of the birthplace of IDM?
>>>
>>> I also thought about the Artificial Intelligence compilations as some
>>> starting point. After that I've read about IDM until now. Could you maybe
>>> advise some further reading about this early British scene? Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> View this message in context:
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>>> Sent from the IDM mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
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