quoted 6 lines This whole "guitar" debate is just getting ridiculous. IDM is not some sacred>This whole "guitar" debate is just getting ridiculous. IDM is not some sacred
>formula like Christianity. Guitars are not heretical. If you doubt, trip back
>in time to 1972 (or thereabouts ... Uncle Jonnie's brain isn't what it once
>was) and slap on Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting." More experimental,
>intelligent and out there than a truckful of Aphex Twerps. And guess what ...
>most of it was done with guitars.
Somebody switched the de-caf out of the OpCode coffee pot, I see :-)
Erm, "No Pussyfooting" ... 1973, mostly done on Revox A77 reel-to-reels.
Experimental? Intelligent? Out there? Hell yes. More so than Aphex? Uh ...
I don't think so. But comparing musics 20 years apart is hardly worth the
bother. The contexts are too different. I like 'em both :-)
As for guitars & Ambient, I could drop a mention of Justin Broadrick's (he of
that Godflesh thingy) solo project Final; the album is called "One". Lots of
guitars making strange mostly-ambient sounding thingies that don't sound
anything like guitars. Then again, we're at the edge of the Universe here; one
step further and we're into "Ambient Industrial" and that's best left for
another place/list/newsgroup/whatever.
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