_DipthonG_ wrote:
quoted 1 line urineidiot.> urineidiot.
Please elaborate.
Andrei
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> From: Drusca <andrei@WORLD.STD.COM>
> To: <idm@hyperreal.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 2:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [idm] Six of one! 1/2 dozen of the other!!!
>
> > isophlux wrote:
> >
> > > When this so called IDM music starts riots with 12 and 15 year girls and boys
> out
> > > side the M-TV studios, on total request live with Carson, then it's pop
> > > music. Or the next time your at the gas station and you pick up a new
> > > Skam release while you pay for your gas, then it's pop music!!!! Or...Or ...
> >
> > Or when IDM tunes are used on major commercials or when IDM tunes are used in
> highly
> > publicized movies or when IDM artists go on tour with internationally famous
> artists
> > or when you see reports about IDM artists on MTV... Hold on...
> >
> > Look ! Pierre Henry, Xenakis, Cage, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Gesualdo, Noh
> > Theater, Peking Opera or even Bach are some examples of stuff that's _not_ pop.
> > IDM/dance music/whatever is fucking POP music. It's not challenging music. It
> doesn't
> > engage you intellectually. You don't have to make any effort to appreciate the
> music.
> > There's nothing challenging about A(/B) song structures or simple, repetitive
> nursery
> > rhyme melodies or beats that stick to a regular pulse for 5-10 minutes, even if
> > they're highly syncopated. They still appeal to your ass more than any other body
>
> > part. It doesn't matter if your mom or some frat boy or some 12 year old girl
> doesn't
> > "get it". I'd say when you start getting into Mego type stuff you're starting to
> > leave the pop realm, but is that even IDM ? And personally I don't even find
> _that_
> > stuff very challenging. There's not that much going on there beyond the surface.
> But
> > Lexaunculpt and his basic major key chord progressions isn't pop ?
> >
> > : )
> >
> > Andrei
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