Interestingly I find a siimlar, yet distinctly different problem occuring nowadays. With the advent of Napster, the potential influx of music has become so enormous that I seemed to have the lost the fun of getting music like I used to. I used to buy a CD only once in while and immerse myself in it. After a month or two, I'd get another and the love affair would begin again...
Now with Napster, I have a choice of so much music that non of it is really appealing anymore. Perhaps the arrival of Napster is just coincidental to my complete disgust with the glitch-dsp CRAP that seems to be the "talk of the town" on this list.(On another note, I truly wonder how many of you really like this noise shit, and how many of you are just afraid to get up and say that you hate it for fear of being chewed out.)
Perhaps Napster has had an unintended effect of providing a sensory overload, and in doing so, will destroy the music scene through an unanticipated route - creation of pure apathy.
For me, this dime-a-dozen, random glitch sounds shit doesn't help much - perhaps I'm not one to judge, but from the discussions and music touted on this list, IDM seems to have devolved into some extremely unintelligent gurglings. I expec this sort of "creative" copycatting from pop muisc not an alternative/pretty much non-lucrative subgenre.
Sunspot
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