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1998-08-23 08:23stowe@biosys.netHello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that contemporary compo

From:: <stowe@biosys.net>
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Date:: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:23:01 -0700
Subject:: (idm) Philip Glass and IDM?

Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that contemporary composer Philip Glass has had a significant impact on shaping the early days of IDM. If this is so, could you please provide me with information and pointers to websites which explain exactly how his music was an influence on the genre? Furthermore, does anyone here listen to and like Philip Glass' music? Thank you very much. -Merced Flem

1998-08-24 02:08Tim Koch> Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that > contemporary c

From:: Tim Koch <tkoch@pa.adelaide.edu.au>
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Date:: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:38:48 +0930 (CST)
Subject:: Re: (idm) Philip Glass+Delta+Mayfax Twin
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quoted 7 lines Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that

> Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that > contemporary composer Philip Glass has had a significant impact on shaping > the early days of IDM. If this is so, could you please provide me with > information and pointers to websites which explain exactly how his music > was an influence on the genre? Furthermore, does anyone here listen to and > like Philip Glass' music? Thank you very much. >

I just last week went and saw Koyaanisqatsi , which is a movie he scored , and was quite impressed .. although it proved to me that Rob Hubbard is not quite as clever as first thought , as it proved that he imitated the music from Koyaanisqatsi so closely in the Commodore 64 game Delta , as to be unforgivable :) But of the little I have heard of Glass , I usually find it quite uninteresting (mainly Einstein on the Beach, which my former housemate used to have sex to! maybe that put me off .. ) idm related .. here's an excerpt from an interview: Barrett: How do you feel about mainstream music? Music that the younger generation listens to. Glass: Tell me what that is. Lee Velo (photographer): As opposed to classical you mean? Barrett: Right, as opposed to opera and classical. Glass: You mean people like Natalie Merchant, people like...I know a lot of those people and I work with them too. I did a record arrangement, a song arrangement for Dorissa Monte. Do you know her? A Brazilian, a beautiful Brazilian singer. And I did an arrangement for Susan Vega, for one of her records. I have a lot of friends who work in the field of popular and commercial music. There's another young guy named Mayfax Twin who's a guy, a dance-music guy from London. I just did a remix of his music. And now he's going to do a remix of my music. I'm in touch with that world. hoho .. someone made a typo , or maybe it wasn't such a memorable experience for old Phil :) Tim.

1998-08-24 14:14Zenon M. Feszczak>Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that >contemporary com

From:: Zenon M. Feszczak <feszczak@sas.upenn.edu>
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Date:: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:14:31 -0400
Subject:: Re: (idm) Philip Glass and IDM?
Reply to:: (idm) Philip Glass and IDM?

quoted 8 lines Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that

>Hello fellow IDMers. Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but I heard that >contemporary composer Philip Glass has had a significant impact on shaping >the early days of IDM. If this is so, could you please provide me with >information and pointers to websites which explain exactly how his music >was an influence on the genre? Furthermore, does anyone here listen to and >like Philip Glass' music? Thank you very much. > >

I'm sure many IDM creators have listened to Glass's music. Other links: Aphex and Glass also did a collaboration album. Glass's "Low Symphony" is based on the album by Eno/Bowie. Colourbox did a Glass tribute track. 3

1998-08-26 14:42Graham the Happy Scum> From: Bob Bannister <bobban@wextech.com> > Glass's most repetitive and mind-bending stuf

From:: Graham the Happy Scum <gths@mail.mpx.com.au>
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Date:: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 00:42:30 +1000
Subject:: (idm) Philip Glass+Delta+Mayfax Twin

quoted 8 lines From: Bob Bannister <bobban@wextech.com>

> From: Bob Bannister <bobban@wextech.com> > Glass's most repetitive and mind-bending stuff is from the early 70s, much > of it originally released on his own Chatham Sq. label - "Music in Fifths", > "Music in Similar Motion" and "Music in Changing Parts" are titles to watch > for, although I have no idea about the CD reissue status of any of them - > also "Music in 12 Parts, Pts. 1 and 2" on Virgin Records mid-70s "too weird > for prime time" subsidiary called Caroline Records changed my life. > "Einstein on the Beach" was about the last gasp before he lost his edge.

Hmm. I've only got "North Star" from 1977, reissued on CD 1986, which is amusing enough, with kooky shifting rhythms and time signatures, in fact I was going to sample the choir "ee-oo-ee-oo" bit from the title track, but decided it didn't really fit the song i was going to use it on. I listen to it very rarely, it's up there with EN's Tabula Rasa and Hunters & Collectors' The Firemans Curse as records I like but listen to rarely because they're so scary. You don't want to know why I got "North Star", except it has a connection with a particular artist certain people here have a violent allergic reaction to. And he suffers from the syndrome described below too.

quoted 8 lines The problem with "classical" composers, even the supposed iconoclasts, is

> The problem with "classical" composers, even the supposed iconoclasts, is > they get comfortable with a certain mainstream acceptance, (teaching gigs > and so on) and start re-recording their old stuff, usually in a softer way > - - the Nonesuch CD boxset of the late 80s recording on "Music in 12 Parts" > sounds mushier to me as does much of the stuff on the Steve Reich boxset. > Another 70s US academic composer whose "trance music" credentials are > underrated is David Borden - his first two LPs under the name Mother > Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company are well worth hearing.

np: A CS1x arpeggiating a drumkit patch with portamento piped through the speaker amp simulator effect. Instant Aphex Twin. -- Graham the Happy Scum (or Graham H Freeman, whichever you prefer) http://www.mpx.com.au/~gths mailto:gths@flat-earth.org this is not a message from god ... ... never, ever!

Re: (idm) Philip Glass+Delta+Mayfax Twin