On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:35:18 -0800 (PST), ed c <echurch86@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 1 line Thats what i love about IDM, we are the cutting edge before the edge is cut.> Thats what i love about IDM, we are the cutting edge before the edge is cut.
Bon mot of the day, or perhaps mot juste?
The thing about being cutting edge is that you start to run out of
ways to innovate. Now that we've got music based on distortion so
pervasive that it's just modulated square waves, and beats cut up to
the point that they oscillate in the low audio range, fake modular
synths on our computers that rivals Hans Zimmer's Wall Of Moog, and
samples so warped, stretched, and pitched they sound like radios tuned
between stations, where do you go from here?
I'm not sure the next big thing is going to come out of anyone's
laptop. If you think about it, in this day and age, the most
revolutionary thing you can do is play acoustic instruments without
amplification -- everything else is, effectively, electronic music.
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