I picked up a magazine I had never noticed before at Barnes&Noble,
called XLR8R.. this is the June|July issue, no.31.
Maybe about page 80 (#'s not marked) it says in an article called
"Hi-Tech Pen Pals: A Jolly Gander at Dance Music E-mail Lists":
"...Some of the best known ones are the Intelligent Dance Music list
(IDM), which started off as an Aphex Twin discussion group off of
www.hyperreal.org, and grew into one of the best known lists on the
net. The general thrust of IDM is mostly nondanceable electronic
music like Aphex Twin, Autechre, and other Warp artists, with many
forays into related topics..."
\\I didn't know it was so well known?
More importantly, I haven't seen this mentioned before. In a
Squarepusher interview in the same mag, he discusses a new album he's
just finished. Article/interview is titled "Look Ma No Sampler".
some excerpts:
'If anyone can be accused of abusing a sampler it's Squarepusher.
Well, he's just finished his new album and abandoned his primary
weapon...'
"I reckon some people are going to say it's a step backwards and
others will say it's a step forwards. Really I'd say it's a step
sideways myself."
"I haven't used any sequencing on it at all. I've kind of abandoned
using the sampler and the sequencer. I've gone instead to record an
album using all live music. <With studio musicians?> No, it's all
done by me. <With a multitrack?> Yeah, I've done it all multitrack.
<Wow. So what sort of instruments are you using on it?> I'm using a
similar sort of instrumentation which I've used before, using
obviously a bass guitar, and drums, a jazz kit, and a Rhodes piano and
miscellaneous sounds which I've generated through however means, using
other synthesizers and shit and a bit of voice, but not singing.
<Why?> I thought the sequencing/sampling thing was running aground a
bit, I was starting to hear other people attempting to do what I was
doing and I thought 'aw, fucking hell.' I was also thinking that my
tracks are getting faster and faster and more complicated and I just
thought 'I've got to draw a line, I've got to stop this, it's going to
become nonsense,' so I drew the line and I stopped doing it. I
decided to just change the angle, and it's pretty successful, I really
like it. It's well experimental. I think it's less poppy, I think
that 'Hard Normal Daddy' is quite pop, quite a commercial album, I
reckon that this one is much less pop so I'll lose about 9/10 of my
audience."
Goes on to say he does it for friends mainly, taking a break now
getting on riding his bike lately (hmm aphex said he was doing the
same thing in that other interview?), really likes and respects Luke
Vibert whom he's gotten to know quite well lately, and goes into some
philosophy about music and understading things, society and music
industry.. A worthwhile interview anyway. I'd type it all in, it's
that important, but that's enough.
cg
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