quoted 16 lines Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:25:48 EDT>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:25:48 EDT
>From: Djslacker227@aol.com
>
>Forget pop we're famous:
>
>Darren Keast writes in an article about kid 606 pissing off "the snobby
>electronic music intelligentsia" in the latest issue of URB
>
>"people on the idm e-mail list ridicule him... deviant listeners like those
>in the bitchy intelligent dance music scene...haters on the idm list whine
>that he gets too much attention outside their exclusive ranks"
>
>URB is definitely a pop culture magazine, and I think that it confirms my
>conjecture that the idm list and experimental techno have an elitist image,
>especially thanks to that whole kid 606/lexaunculpt string that pretty much
>killed any rep or integrity that the list had at all.
let's be honest: URB is the last place anyone would go to for
reputation and integrity. while we breathe rarer, purer air up here
in the mountains of idm-l, at least we can justify what we like. we
can put a name on it and call it Good. and the list's disagreements
over what is good music is mostly both entertaining and intelligent.
at the risk of being blunt, the whole dsp/noise scene with kid606 as
its poster child is an overrated fad, fed on the pseudo-punk image of
the artists and not much more. only white college-age kids can make
hip-hop unlistenable and get pats on the back from pop culture rags. it
may be sound or noise, but it's not music any more than my aging
refrigerator condensor's decaying, chaotic whine at three in the
morning is music.
i'll believe that kid606 and similarly styled musicians are
legitimate artists when you start hearing crunching, arrhythmic dsp
crap in the next britney spears or madonna album. it would mean
either people are dumb as paint and they'll buy anything mtv tells
them to, or there really is something aesthetic that this technique
(and that's all it is) adds to a piece of music.
until then, i don't buy the hype. and i sure as hell won't look to
URB for what i should consider "legitmate" music and what i should
not. (and as to whether idm-l has any "rep" or "integrity" or
"credibility" any more is another discussion entirely, but is URB
really the place to start looking for an answer?)
-a.
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