quoted 3 lines Not to say that TTA's music is bad, but I'm starting to worry about vocals takin> Not to say that TTA's music is bad, but I'm starting to worry about vocals taking over IDM. They are nice when used as
> smaller elements that enhance a track, effected or clean, but it seems to me IDM is becoming "poppier" by the minute.
> I though Red Hot Car was Squarepusher's worst tune ever.
The tedious threads about the definition of IDM that pop up from time to time have revealed one thing in their persistence:
there is no agreement or consensus about what "IDM" is. Another thing that pops up is that certain music fans can be
extremely open to blaming artists for making music they don't like. The above quote reads as if there can be no such thing
as experimental pop music.
This is a danger in experimental music: composers and fans disappearing up their own mp3 collections and dismissing anything
that threatens their worldview. "Oh no, someone got American Idol in my Philip Glass!" reflects a conservative stance
similar to the concern for property values when undesirables move into the neighborhood. However, the only gated communities
in music are those that belong to styles that are no longer evolving.
Nobody owns music and anybody can try to kill any part of it if they want to. Without even asking you!
quoted 2 lines Music evolves at a turtle's pace. When techno came along, everyone> Music evolves at a turtle's pace. When techno came along, everyone
> thought it was strange because there were no vocals.
History tells us this is not so. There are vocals on "Shari Vari," most Cybotron songs, the first five Metroplex releases,
"Nude Photo", many early KMS tracks, and so on. The first Underground Resistance record was a vocal house track. These
examples are only a part of Detroit's role in techno's legacy, and there are many more worldwide examples that refute any
interpretation of techno as an instrumental form of music. Techno was innovative for breaking history's lock on House music
as mechanized Disco by expanding the range of sounds that could be included in club sounds. This didn't happen at a turtle's
pace, Detroit techno came into being as an established style over the course of only four years from the release of "Clear"
to the birth of the big three labels of Metroplex, Transmat, and KMS. This doesn't even include the crucial influence of
synthpop, industrial, and new beat which reached back into experimental academic and commercial music of the 60s and 70s.
All had vocals.
-eric
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