quoted 7 lines From: "adam.florin" <adam@sirius.com>
>From: "adam.florin" <adam@sirius.com>
>Subject: Re: (idm) simon reynolds blurb on matador site
>
>to someone
>like myself who was too young during most of the electronic music
>revolution, _generation ecstacy_ was a comprehensive history of electronic
>music, a good way to catch up quick.
Sure. But its a skewed history - Reynolds bias against Detroit techno and
its' influence is hard to fathom. I'd reccomend Dan Sickos _Techno Rebels_
book for a background on how techno started.
I'd argue that Detroit techno was one of the main forces behind IDM,
especially here in the UK (check ART, B12, some Warp and Rephlex releases,
etc.). That influence has shifted to a wider scale now but when the IDM list
first started, it encompassed a great deal of Detroit techno and Detroit
influenced releases (probably up until the point the 313 list started).
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