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From: "joshua twentythree" <joshua@ropeswingcities.com>
Reply-To: joshua@ropeswingcities.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:47:03 -0700 (MST)
quoted 18 lines on the other hand, many electronic music writers and fans seem ready to>> on the other hand, many electronic music writers and fans seem ready to
>> split off and name a
>> new genre every time a new instrument is added or beats are changed around
>> a bit. thus
>> rather than giving electronica/IDM a shot in the arm, the addition of
>> guitars simply created
>> yet another sub-genre for a weary public to assimlate or ignore -
>> "indietronica". united we
>> stand, divided we fall.
>
>
>
>so... then could that be summed up as saying, "the people who like IDM
>killed IDM"?
>
>:)
>
>joshua.
heh. well that would presume i am declaring IDM "dead"...and no one with half a brain would
touch that thread with a 12k pole.
personally, i love electronic music, i love music that uses a minimum of electronics
(basically the recording equipment), i love music that mixes and matches whatever. i admit i
am a bit "over" the "standard" IDM "sound" as practiced by certain descendants of the biggest
bands on warp. but the best stuff stays listenable, and new things constantly recreate from
the old by breaking the rules and remaking their own. if IDM is simply one of many catch-all
terms to define an ever-morphing type of electronic music, rather than a single genre
existing during a fixed period of time, then theoretically it will never "die".
d.
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