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even though i get the feeling this thread should be stopped, i would like to comment since i'm the one who has drawn the ire of mr scooper... all i was suggesting was that the sounds and song structure remind me of two different eras of autechre, and thus have a similar emotional effect upon me as ae and would appeal to those who might like those periods too. i could have gone into some prosaic and detailed description of arovane, but i'd rather leave it as a general "recommended if you like" and then let the listener figure things out from there, draw their own conclusions. sorry for showing my apparent laziness and ignorance, i thought i was offering a short succinct opinion on an artist that i think a bunch of people on IDM would really like. maybe next time my reviews won't disappoint... btw, i'm not actually as annoyed at this as i might sound, but i am surprised that such an innocent (and hopefully moderately useful) comment could draw such negative attention. guess i shouldn't quit my day job to become a music reviewer. :) ethan ps - i thought the BDP in "BDP meets coil" was black dog productions, not boogie down. then again, perhaps i'm just missing jetjag's joke... Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:13:51 -0800 To: idm@hyperreal.org From: Sean Cooper <scooper@best.com> Subject: stop the lame comparisons, please Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000315161351.014308a0@shell7.ba.best.com> at what point do we stop granting domain over an entire approach to electronic music to a single artist? at what point do we concede that the combination of interesting rhythms and interesting melodies has become the goal of a whole group of likeminded artists whose various slants on same can't be whittled down to a single influence? i'm all for calling a spade a spade, but the endless comparing of things to autechre or aphex twin or whatever other first-wave idm artist has passed the point of usefulness. these comments about while and arovane are a case in point. neither can reasonably be compared to autechre beyond the blueprint description provided above, yet these comparisons continue to be made. this is either ignorance or laziness. can we find a new crutch, please? sc >that's funny - your description of while is exactly how i was thinking i'd >describe the new arovane cd. :) this isn't a slight against it, i really >rather like everything i've heard by him... > >>>"BDP meets Coil", or so the ads say. True, or hype? Fact or Fiction? > >>I'd say it sounds more like _Amber_-era Autechre meets "Cichlisuite"-era >>Autechre. It's a very enjoyable slice of music, though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org