why doesn't anyone ever mention electro funk as an influence? that's where
techno came from...then house, IDM, trance...pretty much all forms of
'dance' music...
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From: "theREALmxyzptlk" <theREALmxyzptlk@comcast.net>
To: "ed c" <echurch86@yahoo.com>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] Derrick May invented IDM?
quoted 37 lines ed c wrote:> ed c wrote:
>
>>I was reading a book that was trying to say Nude Photo was the beggining
>>of IDM. Does anybody feel that way cause i sure don't. Thats kind of like
>>saying Donna Summer invented Post-Rock.
>>
>>
> While I might not agree with that statement in a vacuum, I would say that
> anyone who feels like IDM just floated down one day in the 1990s is
> missing a big aspect of the roots involved. Derrick May has a LOT more to
> do with IDM than Donna has to do with post-rock any way you shake it;
> that's just a bad analogy, sorry.
> Take it back to the late 80s, early 90s - where did Carl Craig get his
> start? A.R.T. is the obvious link between Detroit and IDM with the whole
> TBD, Plaid, Degiorgio, Stasis LINK with the Detroit sound as well as the
> fact that they were doing things on the same label. However you want to
> slot Monolake, Basic Channel and that whole crew, if you don't think
> there's a connection to Detroit, think again. I'm not a Detroit monger
> (just because I live very nearby), but it's just the truth.
> Detroit didn't happen in a vacuum, either - you can kick it back to
> Kraftwerk, the experimentalists (Stockhausen, Dockstader, etc.) or even
> Musique Concret if you wish. Even if you do so, you still can't eascape
> the Detroit influence. And if Detroit never happened, who knows - it might
> have sprung in some fashion from Chicago or acid house, both of which have
> their fingers in the pots as well. Everything came from somewhere and if
> you deny the dance music/techno leg of the whole of IDM, you have a
> truncated version - an amputee, i.e, a very limited definition which
> becomes more so the farther back you trace roots.
>
>
> jeff
>
>
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