<grumpyOldMan type=asshole>
Ah fuck all this ranting and raving shit. Music sucks, and there is no more
innovation anymore, so you all might as well just go home and SHUT UP!
</grumpyOldMan>
quoted 20 lines <rant>> <rant>
> I think it's time that we all accept the fact that our tastes in music change over time. You will never hear Aphex or ae or Boards of Canada or any of these artists quite the same way you heard them the first time. When you first hear a particular sound that you like, that moment and artist tend to become your blueprint for finding more. When you can no longer find interesting versions of those sounds, the problem is that you've heard those sounds already, even if it is a different artist doing something similar.
>
> There are tons of IDM artists out there. I seem to have no problem finding good music. BUT--I'm not tired of the sound. I can recall being much younger and thinking that artist A was fantastic. So fantastic that I bought all of artist A's back catalog and so on. Then I got into artist B, who was similar to artist A but different enough to like. Then I sought out artist B's back catalog. ETC. At some point, artist A & B no longer cut it for me, so I stopped listening and looking for similar artists and even A & B's new material. That doesn't mean I no longer like the stuff of their's that I have, it just means I've changed. I bored myself. It no longer excites me.
>
> Lesson--We all change, genres "seem" to change as we change, and over time we become cranky about how all the new material just doesn't cut it. The problem is usually the listener. Most new people on this list would probably disagree that IDM is dead at all. It's just now becoming alive to them. That doesn't mean anybody who thinks IDM is dead is wrong, it just means you're not interested as much anymore.
>
> Hell, look at how many rock artists have proclaimed rock dead over the years? The Doors have an unreleased (until their box set) song named, "Rock is Dead", recorded around 1968-1969. Most boomers would think this is rock's big moment at that point in history, but apparently some people didn't think so. Rock still chugs on today, whether or not I think it's dead, so on so on.
>
> Blah.
> </rant>
>
> And while I'm at it, I like Freescha's "Kids fill the floor" & Manitoba's "Start Breaking My Heart" still sounds good.
>
> cheers,
> Mark
> hellothisisalex
> www.hellothisisalex.com / records.hellothisisalex.com
> mp3s at www.raw42.com/cgi-bin/featuredartist.pl?artist=213
> mark@hellothisisalex
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