One of the interesting facets of this is that of providing a sort of historical artifact/barometer in a rapidly shifting and multiplying genre/sub genre.
One of the ongoing arguments on the ambient list is the plasticity of the term 'ambient'. It's always fun to be reminded of a time when idm, ambient and techno were not as rigid categorically. And notions of all of those sub-sub genres has changed as well - trance was once not a hated term (I would add, though, that trance 'then' seems to bear little resemblance to what it later became.
jeff
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From: Johan <antioxidant@glocalnet.net>
quoted 50 lines Hi all,
> Hi all,
>
> The 1995 9-track IDM compilation CD "Threads" is now available for free
> download here:
>
> http://unother.net/idm.threads/
>
> Various Artists
> "Threads"
> Label: "Intelligent Dance Music"
> Cat.no.: idm001
>
> 1. Quanta "Space"
> 2. lee.fogel "Interstellar"
> 3. Induction "Dusk"
> 4. Seofon "Scharae"
> 5. DAC Crowell "N.Am.Skywave"
> 6. Tempest "Source Safe"
> 7. TV-99-AD "Mother G"
> 8. Xigma-Phi "Tam-Tam"
> 9. Artificial Paradise "Godwater"
>
> My favourites are tracks 1 (Quanta "Space") and 6 (Tempest "Source
> Safe"), I played those tracks on my collage radio show back in
> 1996-1997. I think it's a brilliant album, very ambient but that's not
> a bad thing IMO.
>
> If any of the featured artists doesn't like this free download thing
> then please get in touch with us and we will remove the mp3
> immediately. But then the CD is sold out since long so...
>
> FYI, the artists had to pay in order to get the CD produced, but they
> didn't get any money back if I remember correctly, there were some bad
> feelings involved. Maybe also a reason why there never was a follow-up
> (or were there? I left the list in 1997...).
>
> I just submitted the compilation info to discogs.com too, it wasn't
> even listed there...
>
> Cheers,
> Johan.
> ------------------------------------------
> Johan Agebj?rn
> antioxidant@glocalnet.net
> mp3s: www.johanagebjorn.info
>
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