IDM Mailing Archive

quoted 7 lines Ahh, heck, I'll just get it out on the table: everybody on this list

> Ahh, heck, I'll just get it out on the table: everybody on this list > who isn't completely close-minded should run right out and buy the > _Monsters, Robots, and Bug Men_ compilation that Virgin recently put > out (its catalog number is AMBT 11, which should give you some idea > where it's coming from). It's a compendium of "post rock" songs > (whatever "post rock" means -- that's almost as vague and meaningless > as term as "intelligent dance music")

I really must second this. This compilation is absolutely superb from beginning to end. Whilst not actually being IDM by any stretch of the imagination there is lots of interest to any IDMer who is not totally hostile to guitars. Droning, experimental song structure and use of instrumentation, lots of references to fusion and Krautrock and so on. Cool cover as well. Virgin's AMBT series is well worth glancing over as a whole. The first three 'Brief History of Ambient' double CDs aren't that hot, basically they are Virgin label samplers, but after that Virgin have bankrolled some seriously cool shit. This includes the Isolationism compilation, Techno-Animal LP, stuff by Paul Schutze, the Ocean of Sound compilations and so on. Not bad for a (cough, splutter) major label. love and kisses, Rob ;-) (who, as you might have gathered, is bored and spending all day mucking around on the net)