quoted 4 lines Compare someone who makes> >>Compare someone who makes
> >> "difficult/avant garde" music to a kid who goes out to raves every
> weekend and
> >> eats loads of drugs - Reynolds would argue that the kid is actually
doing
quoted 7 lines more> more
> >> to push the envelope, challenge the status quo, etc.
>
> Not only that, but that the musician who makes the soundtracks for that
> kid's nights out is making wierder and freakier music than any of the
> bedroom idm geeks who stand back from the dancefloor and make their own
> versions of club sounds (witness Drill'n'Bass)
I found that out to be true myself. Myself being some guy noddling about
with computer programs on the weekend, the traditional bedroom musician. I
then find that not to be the case when I meet this one guy, true IDM, stays
up for days at a time making tracks that sound like V/Vm (which makes me
wonder what minimal effort it is to make some of those tracks), has shit
loads of equipment then calls me on not making music for myself, because I
like to dance to Jeff Mills and Hawtin. Bugger if I care for him and his
"dirty insomniac" IDM musician contingency. He just characterizes
everything as noise.
From your friend Boffin, ermmmm....known to everyone else as Rusty
PS: I did like Reynolds book. I suggested it to that friend but just an
impossible guy that he is. Also Ocean of Sound...but just not a spotter I
assume.