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1997-02-05 15:52Emanuel Borsboom>Definitely. I got tired of my dumb-ass friends listening to their usual >Nirvana/Green Da

From:: Emanuel Borsboom <manny@zerius.victoria.bc.ca>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 07:52:45 -0800
Subject:: Re: (idm) Re: Nonsense about NIN, Bowie, etc.

quoted 2 lines Definitely. I got tired of my dumb-ass friends listening to their usual

>Definitely. I got tired of my dumb-ass friends listening to their usual >Nirvana/Green Day-type (crap) music a couple years ago, so I forced every

single

quoted 4 lines one of them to listen to Aphex Twin. (That was all I was really into at the

>one of them to listen to Aphex Twin. (That was all I was really into at the >time, but it was better than nothing.) > >Some liked it, some didn't. But I still feel that I single-handedly drove

up the

quoted 3 lines sales of the "Ventolin" EP and "...I Care". :)

>sales of the "Ventolin" EP and "...I Care". :) > >And all that came after someone else had forced ME to listen Aphex. :)

I've been forcing my friends to listen to "my" music for years now, but it never really caught on until I played them Squarepusher - Feed me Weird Things a couple of days ago. This was the first time anyone asked me to play one of my CDs again. One of them e-mailed me saying he'd wants to buy some of this stuff, how much does it cost. While I'm here, Canadians might be interested in knowing that MuchMusic is playing a second installment of R.U.Receiving? at midnight eastern on feb 7. Hopefully this one will be better than the first. manny. OnNow: Autechre - Envane (which I highly recommend. every track is great). -- Why R Are Why / Are Y Are We?

1997-02-05 16:47khannan suntharamHi guys, I'm looking to trade the following CDs Alec Empire -Lmtd. Editions (preferably fo

From:: khannan suntharam <kxs28972@Bayou.UH.EDU>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:47:32 -0600 (CST)
Subject:: (idm) Looking to trade...
Reply to:: Re: (idm) Re: Nonsense about NIN, Bowie, etc.

Hi guys, I'm looking to trade the following CDs Alec Empire -Lmtd. Editions (preferably for Generation Star Wars) u-ziq - Salsa with Mesquite Please reply via private e-mail. Thanks. khannan suntharam kxs28972@bayou.uh.edu

1997-02-05 17:29Zenon M. FeszczakAt 10:52 -0500 05.02.97, Emanuel Borsboom <manny@zerius.victoria.bc.ca> wrote: > >I've bee

From:: Zenon M. Feszczak <feszczak@sas.upenn.edu>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:29:10 -0500
Subject:: (idm) The Missionary Position
Reply to:: Re: (idm) Re: Nonsense about NIN, Bowie, etc.

At 10:52 -0500 05.02.97, Emanuel Borsboom <manny@zerius.victoria.bc.ca> wrote:

quoted 3 lines I've been forcing my friends to listen to "my" music for years now, but it

> >I've been forcing my friends to listen to "my" music for years now, but it >never really caught on until...

I've also played missionary, attempting to convert pagans into idm/ambient/i-techno believers. The music which seems most successful for such evangelical purposes, in my experience, is the trance-oriented melodic stuff on Eye-Q, particularly the "Behind the Eye" comps, Cygnus' "HyperMetrical". The Cygnus record, in particular, converted one friend from the statement - "Oh, I can't stand all that boring techno ----" - to "Where can I get a copy?". Also records like the Ambient Dub and A.D. comps. Another friend, a former pure folk-rock type, recently ran up to me, rabid and frantic, with a copy of "Freezone 2" in hand, ranting "Have you heard this? Have you heard this? Amazing! Amazing!" He seemed to have forgotten, in his rampant enthusiasm, that I was the one who had recommended the record to him. He began playing the "Air" excerpt on the stereo repeatedly, and I nearly induced a stroke by telling the Born-Again IDMer that, in fact, this Namlook cut was only an excerpt from a full-length of the same name. I did not risk charges for involuntary homocide by mentioning the number, not to mention rarity, of actual FAX releases. 3

(idm) The Missionary Position