quoted 43 lines From: Shirei3000@aol.com
>From: Shirei3000@aol.com
>To: dinobose@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: (idm) Leftfield >> IDM in general
>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:11:15 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 12/28/99 7:43:59 PM, dinobose@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< --let's hold off on the IDM snobbery please...i don't think that
>leftfield
>is that bad...some might not fit into IDM...but it does in the free-est
>sense of the word...
>--remember, IDM stands for "intelligent dance music" not "let's worship
>Aphex and Autechre as gods and think they are the standard against which
>everything else is compared" >>
>
>The thing I think about when it comes to this IDM list is from what emails
>I
>have read, I'd say 90% of the list members are snobs! For the other 10% of
>you people seem to be total cool with helping people find lp's, etc. That
>is
>the part I like most about the list. I often wonder why do people buy this
>stuff, from what I gather alot of people might purchase something maybe
>because they like it half way, but for the most part as a "collectible".
>Excuse me for those "collectors" out there, but isn't music suppose to be
>about the music and not the worth? I'm tired of seeing postings for skam,
>afx,
> etc. on ebay. PEOPLE, WE KNOW ABOUT EBAY, AND IF WERE THAT DESPERATE TO
>GO
>THERE, YOU WOULD THINK WE WOULD KNOW WHERE TO SEARCH FOR IT ON EBAY. I
>don't
>know maybe I'm the only person out here that does actually play the records
>I
>do buy...
> On another area of the IDM and the internet. With people uploading mp3's
>and other various audio. Where do you draw the line and say ok, I think
>I'll
>purchase this persons lp because I want to see them continue making music?
> My last words are these, I really don't care to see anything about how
>Britney Spears does DNB on her tour. Really where does this fit in at all
>with IDM?
>M.A.S.
>"a juicy red apple is nice, but not all apples are red"
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