Re: [idm] aphex gets "complete apathy"? / Raymond Scott/ subotnick
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My disappointment with Drukqs was due to the many tracks that were high on
drill & bass hi-jinks and low on melodic sensibilities. when they two came
together, as on "Meltphace 6" I was blown away. unfortunately, that did not
happen on very many tracks. The mellow tracks I enjoy, including his homages
to Erik Satie and John Cage (i.e.: the piano pieces).
The intriguing aspect to the analord 12"s is the very old school sound of
the synths. I mean, some of the sounds are just like ones you hear on
Raymond Scotts stuff (specifically: "The Bass Line Generator" and "Night &
Day" from the Manhattan Research Project)
Speaking of IDM from the 60's (and PLEASE, NO MORE WHAT IS IDM? questions.
It's electronic music for nerds. like, duh) I finally got a chance to hear
Morton Subotnick's music. 'The Wild Bull' from 1967 is freakin hardcore IDM.
I'm not usually taken by the "academic" take on electronic music - but this
is some intense stuff ,set to a drum machine/sequencer. Seriously, I can
imagine Autechre listening to this after making LP7 and thinking "Oh shit.
this is from '67? we need to get hardcore just to catch up to this"
and yeah - the Alarm Will Sound covers of Aphex Twin are nifty indeed. much
more interesting than the aphex/philip glass thing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Williams" <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
To: "do id" <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] aphex gets "complete apathy"?
I really got into Drukqs only a few months ago, when I grabbed the mp3s (and
Analord) off of bittorrent to listen to at work. I put drukqs and analord on
shuffle play and went back to figuring out how to read DICOM image files,
and after a few shuffles through I decided it was way better than listening
to the CD had been when it came out. I liked the Analord tracks because they
remind me a lot of the stuff he was doing early on, without being the same
thing over again.
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