I thought I'd save bandwidth and weigh in on a bunch of stuff that's been
flying around the list this week in one e-mail.
first...
quoted 1 line Album: String Theory - Tevatron
> Album: String Theory - Tevatron
er ... it's not so much an album as a track ... but thanks for the mention
:) watch out for a split 12" this summer on Skam, don't know who's on the
other side yet...
quoted 3 lines I post this list for the people that is rather new in the Intelligent music
> I post this list for the people that is rather new in the Intelligent music
> stuff like me (I had been listening to the "other" electronic music... maybe
> called "dumb" for many years).
see, this is the problem with a name like Intelligent Dance Music -- it
suggests that other Dance music is NON-Intelligent ... I'm not saying
there isn't a huge mess of dumb dance music out there but it's not so much
the "intelligence" of the music that intrigues me as the individualism. I
think the #1 rule of making this "IDM" is trying to push boundaries in
directions they haven't been pushed before. When the boundaries get
pushed out, it opens up much more space for the "genre" ( i hate genres )
to grow. But these boundaries get pushed by people other than
Booth/Brown/James/Jenkinson/IDM-Artist-Of-The-Minute. To wax geometric
for a moment: IDM is one very interesting face on a pan-dimensional
mega-hedron that is modern music, and just as the IDM face gets stretched
into new territory, other faces deform as a result. The opposite is true
as well.
quoted 3 lines There are a lot of subscribers to the list. Can you guys please enlighthen
> There are a lot of subscribers to the list. Can you guys please enlighthen
> the path to the rather new people in this list? We just want some
> recommendations.
I have only been on this list for a couple weeks so perhaps I am seeing an
anomaly that will correct itself soon but I have to say this is by far the
most negative, snotty list I have ever been on. The whole POINT of an
e-mail list is to share information and express opinions. For people to
jump all over other list members for asking questions and expressing
opinions (even though they may not be shared by a single other person on
the list) seems juvenille and elitist.
quoted 2 lines I?m sorry if someone hates me for asking this, but ALL of us were newbies
> I?m sorry if someone hates me for asking this, but ALL of us were newbies
> sometime.....
A poster to a list should never feel inclined to use a disclaimer like
that...
Maybe I'm just a hippie.
Josh
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