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From:
Sho Kuwamoto
To:
intelligent dance music mailing list
Date:
Fri, 20 May 94 1:05:42 EST
Subject:
Re: Is the end near?
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Lazlo (lazlo@xmission.com) writes:
quoted 12 lines Jamie Hodge writes:> Jamie Hodge writes: > > I'm hardly advocating discourse on WWS Pussy, or any such gabber > > nonsense.. I am however asking that the discussion of IDM include less > > predictable artists. > > Once again -- unless I missed a memo, nobody here is being paid to keep > the list filled with Things Jamie Wants To Read About. If you want more > discussion of <X>, then start talking about <X>, and if anyone else is > interested they'll start talking about it too. If that doesn't work, well, > you'll just have to start the "Records-That-Came-Out-Within-The-Past-Week- > And-I'm-Ever-So-Much-More-Hip-Than-You-Because-I-Heard-About-Them-Before- > You-Did" list.
Lazlo, I think you *did* miss a memo. The discussion started when cspot@netcom.com wrote:
quoted 5 lines Here's a hint - quit talking about trance on this list. This isn't directed> Here's a hint - quit talking about trance on this list. This isn't directed > specifically at you, Jason, so don't take it personally. I have no problem > with you discussing your favorite trance hits till the cows come home, just > don't do it here. Trance, as a whole, is not IDM. You may dispute this, but > you'll have to be very persuasive to convince me otherwise.
To which Jamie replied:
quoted 2 lines I really don't think that members> I really don't think that members > of this group are in any position to get snotty about limits of discussion.
I don't think he was demanding that others talk about the kind of music he likes. I think he was asking others not to be closed-minded about what constitutes IDM. -Sho -- sho@physics.purdue.edu <<-- finger this account to find out what I'm having for lunch! <A HREF="http://physics.purdue.edu/~sho/homepage.html>Sho Kuwamoto</A>.