chthonic streams wrote:
quoted 9 lines From: andrew jones <liminal18@mac.com>>>>> From: andrew jones <liminal18@mac.com>
>>>>
>>>> it's been years since I heard anything good on Warp or in idm in
>>>> general.
>>>> !!! I actually kinda like and that Gravenhurst warp just put out is
>>>> getting good press but the last chris clark/ almost everything else
>>>> has left me un--impressed.
>
> i really like the second chris clark.
I liked 1-2 tracks on it... I'll jump on the "me too" bandwagon,
legitimately because I was just thinking about this a couple days ago
after going to Warp's site for the first time in months to see what they
were up to. After listening to samples for some of the new stuff I
hadn't heard about, I can honestly say I haven't liked anything they've
released since about 2001, excepting the more long-standing artists on
their roster. I really like all the recent Autechre releases, I loved
Plaid's Spokes after a few listens, and I've always liked Broadcast
since Warp first got them in '97/98, though they are pretty different
and I don't listen to them much. The only exception to this exception
rule has been Two Lone Swordsmen - I really dug their previous Warp
releases, but the last one was too much of a departure for me.
It's too bad they got rid of Jimi Tenor, though good for Jimi - his
releases since leaving Warp, esp. the recent "Beyond The Stars", have
been excellent! Not IDM (I go to Merck for that now), but good for me.
For the people who say IDM is running out of steam, I don't think Warp
has really released any IDM in ages. (Well, IDM as I like it/know it -
I know the "definition" is pretty broad.) Experimental hip hop and
electronic-indy-rock hybrids is what I see coming out of them for the
past couple years. They can do what they want but it's just not my
thing. I think they want to be Matador. I wish them success, and I'll
still get the next BoC release, but I've long since stopped even keeping
tabs on everything they release, let alone buying them. Though kudos to
Warp for setting up Bleep - nothing I want yet, but it's a promising
enterprise...
On a related tip, Skam is the same way for me. Haven't liked anything
they've put out in the last couple years except the Bola & Freeform albums.
And speaking of electronic-indy-rock hybrids, if you *are* into that
sort of thing, the new Capitol K album "Happy Happy" does it really
well, with a nice kind of brit-pop spin. Too bad for me, though,
because I wanted more of what he was doing before, which was more funky,
dancy, psychedelic...
-adamp
damek.org
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