The, to my mind, curmudgeonly position that "Jim O'Rourke is more suited to
the ambient list, please take it elsewhere" is certainly crying out for
flames (and I almost wonder if it's not intentionally flame-bait). I could
bring up plenty of recent instances of non-IDM that got discussed around
here, from Jochem Paap's ambient CDs to the agonizing debacle of D'Angelo to
the never-ending references back to hip hop (a critical plank in IDM's
platform for "keeping it real" -- how many fucking times will I have to read
Booth & Brown talk about how they were into electro and breaking, way way
back in the day? But I digress).
In any case, what I find most interesting about the demand to segregate
ambient topics from IDM topics (even when the label at issue is, as in the
case of the O'Rourke remix, arch-IDM label Warp) is that IDM was born
largely out of the chillout rooms of rave/club culture. Its roots are
really linked with ambient's development. And yet somehow there's an
assumption now that IDM consists only of crunch'n'bleep DSP fuckery, and all
the other influences be damned.
Ah well, here's to sheltered childhoods.
Philip Sherburne
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