if your looking for smooth melodic IDM, i suggest anything on Emanate,
lillienthal in particular.
BTW john hughs III is a really nice down to earth guy.
greg
quoted 67 lines From: Jeffrey Barszcz <glueslabs@earthlink.net>
>From: Jeffrey Barszcz <glueslabs@earthlink.net>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] Re:john hughes, reach the rock sndtrk, death of electronic
>music
>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:38:55 -0400
>
> >fascinates me the most is the john hughes thing...does any one else find
> >this just completely bizzare? there's the 'reach the rock' reference...am
>i
> >totally lost and reading too much into this? is this the same john hughes
> >who brought us the likes of 'breakfast club' and 'ferris bueller' ? and
>now
> >he's doing weirdo remixes and sonic 'treatments' .. appologies if this
>has
> >already been covered.
>
> >It's his son, John Hughes jr who runs hefty records..
>
>actually, it's John Hughes III. :) sorry. anyway, both the soundtrack and
>the movie, which was written by jr jr's dad, are pretty cool. the
>soundtrack more so. it turned me on to an almost completely
>unrelated-to-idm-or-electronic-music band called dianogah. anyone else
>heard them? it's 3 guys: a drummer and two bassists. their song on the
>soundtrack is great, and after i hearing it i've had to get all their
>available records...which unfortunately didn't quite meet my expectations,
>but are still really good. i don't know who to compare them to. at times,
>their sound reminds me of a recent favorite of mine, ganger. kinda kraut
>rock-y...sorta. what i like best is that the it's all rhythm section. the
>drums are brought forward (as they should be...not enough attention paid to
>them in guitar music) and the two bass players (one of which plays the
>"sharp" bass and the other, the "round") get some good stuff out of their
>guitars. very melodic, esp. for basses. anyway, something to check out if
>you are, like me, getting somewhat bored with electronic music. is anyone
>else getting that way? i dunno what it is. i think i just need a break or
>something. there was a time when i got sick of guitar music and listened
>almost exclusively to electronic stuff (not just idm, hip hop and d'n'b
>too, etc). at the time, about 4 years ago, i told my friend (who doesn't
>like electronic stuff at all, then or now) that rock was dead! ha ha.
>anyway, this kind of sucks right now, because my record collection is about
>2/3 electronic!
>
>*sneaky idm content: can anyone recommend a good electronic record that
>might please me? recent stuff, i mean. i've been trying to pick up 'lily
>of the valley' for weeks now, but the local shop can't get it back in for
>some reason.
>anyway, any recommendations? to help rule out some stuff, i don't like the
>glitchy stuff or the really minimal stuff too much. i'm really looking for
>melody and something that makes me want to listen to it over and over. you
>know? something with at least a little hook to it? just a tiny one,
>please. that's all i want. think solvent or boc. when the hell is a new
>boards record coming out? DAMN.
>
>ok, i'm getting extra loopy now. sorry guys, it's 9:30AM and i just got
>off of work. thanks for reading this piece of crap. oh, if you want to
>find out about that band dianogah go here: http://www.xsite.net/~dianogah/
>(i'm not their manager, btw)....ok bye
>
>jeff
>
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