here-here... i recently got my first portable mp3 device and i must say...
yes, i love mogwai. yes, i love incredible string band. yes, i love cradle
of filth... but goddamn, if good idm isn't the most fucking exciting music
on the face of the planet.... dont get disheartened boys!!!
btw, anyone have any Sonic Dragolgo recommendations? hot shit.
quoted 58 lines From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>Reply-To: <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] indie killed the idm star?
>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:20:46 -0800
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "joshua twentythree" <joshua@ropeswingcities.com>
>Reply-To: joshua@ropeswingcities.com
>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:47:03 -0700 (MST)
>
> >> 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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