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Re: [idm] whatever happened to...
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Kosmik Kommando. he hasnt released anything in about four year i think (anything good at least - 98k series was utter CRAP). I am highly anticipating his new release next week. another: Leo anibaldi this guy makes the darkest electro i have ever heard truly amazing. is he even still around? Another: solar x havent heard from him in a while. byebye
quoted 10 lines From: "Adam Piontek" <damek@earthling.net>>From: "Adam Piontek" <damek@earthling.net> >Reply-To: "Adam Piontek" <damek@earthling.net> >To: "idm-list" <idm@hyperreal.org> >Subject: [idm] whatever happened to... >Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:51:49 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [209.133.83.16] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBBCACA9B0078D821EECED185531007DD0; Thu Nov 02 06:52:24 2000 >Received: (qmail 21028 invoked by uid 281); 2 Nov 2000 14:51:54 -0000 >Received: (qmail 21008 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2000 14:51:53 -0000
From idm-return-23031-red_shift_x7 Thu Nov 02 06:53:06 2000
quoted 71 lines Mailing-List: contact idm-help@hyperreal.org; run by ezmlm>Mailing-List: contact idm-help@hyperreal.org; run by ezmlm >Precedence: bulk >X-No-Archive: yes >list-help: <mailto:idm-help@hyperreal.org> >list-unsubscribe: <mailto:idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org> >list-post: <mailto:idm@hyperreal.org> >Delivered-To: mailing list idm@hyperreal.org >Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.90.3000) >Message-Id: <14580999526747@mirage.tcinternet.net> > >Recently I've been listening again to some of the "older" >"electronica" CDs I got from around the time when "electronica" was >the next big thing according to music critics. (as for when I got >into this stuff, I honestly entered a store and picked up RDJ Album >with no provocation -I'd never heard of Aphex Twin, never heard of >IDM, never heard of Warp Records. No one said anything to me saying >"get this" - I just saw it and thought it looked interesting. Maybe >it was divine intervention, but that got me into all electronic >music. Previously my favorite artists were Tori Amos and They Might >Be Giants...) > >So anyway, sorry for that digression, but my point is that, back >around 1996-1997, "electronica," if you remember, was this big deal, >sort of. Artists like Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, >Aphex Twin, The Prodigy, etc, were getting a lot of attention for >nothing. There were a lot of artists then, and many of them are >still around, but I'm wondering what happened to some of the artists >from "electronica's boom years," if you'll forgive my continuing use >of that word. I'm sort of on a nostalgia kick... > >For example, I was listening to a CD last night that I haven't heard >in over two years - "Risotto" by Fluke. Whatever happened to Fluke? >They were popular back in 96-97, and had that album on Astralwerks. >They had a lot of other releases, mostly remix EPs, previously, on >other labels somewhere. I liked them. Yeah, they weren't as IDM-ish >as some things, but I think they fit in here loosely... > >I always thought of Fluke as very Underworld-ish ... Underworld are >still around (minus one member, of course), but Fluke seem to have >dropped off the face of the planet. I can't find any relatively >up-to-date info on them on the net. > >I know bands die all the time, but I don't even see anything about >"they've broken up" or anything like that. It's like all info on >Fluke has been frozen in time... > >For that matter, what's up with Future Sound of London? Last I >heard, they were actually working on new material for an album this >year (2000), and then it was delayed to 2001. Does anyone know >anything more about them? Or are they dead now too? Their web pages >on the net appear to have died... > >Most importantly, I'm hoping to jump-start a nostalgia thread here. >What artists from the mid-nineties do you fondly remember, preferably >ones that aren't around anymore, or at least haven't released >anything in a long time. And try to keep it to electronic stuff - no >one better mention, like, "Blind Melon" or something dumb like that! >-adam > >-- >Adam Piontek [http://www.tcinternet.net/users/damek/] >ICQ: 3456339 [damek@earthling.net] >... Floggings will continue until morale improves. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >
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