Aronne J Merrelli wrote:
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> Excerpts from mail: 15-Oct-98 Re: (idm) Re: interpreting .. by william
> ratke@telusplane
> > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:45:22 -0700
> > From: william ratke <adroxy@telusplanet.net>
> > To: Aronne J Merrelli <merrelli+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> > Subject: Re: (idm) Re: interpreting Ae's music
> >
> > Aronne J Merrelli wrote:
> > >
> > > Excerpts from mail: 10-Oct-98 idm-digest V2 #355 by
> idm-digest@hyperreal.org
> >
> > > > Case in point: I was playing one of my favorite songs of the decade,
> > > > "Flutter" off the Anti EP. My landlord (and good friend) comes in and
> > > > thinks the disk is skipping. And unfortunately, I regret to say that
> > > > for a lot of people, that song will never become clear to them, no
> > > > matter how many times they hear it.
> > >
> > > Yeah, this is very true... "flutter" is a beautiful song, but
> > > I can't imagine many other people actually liking it. I typically
> > > only listen to my music on headphones because I know it annoys my
> > > friends & roomates!
> > >
> > > > Well, the "Picture" buried in Lp5 has not yet revealed
> > > > itself to me, after several listens with a very open and informed
> > > > mind. Am I missingsomething? Do any of you agree with me?
> > > > As much as I may respect Sean & Rob for trying to stay fresh,
> > > > I'm not going to pretend to like it. I think they've lost
> > > > something. Perhaps thier show on Saturday will change my opinion;
> > > > I've never seen them live. Sure hope they play some of thier older
> > > > stuff.
> > >
> > > This is a very good analogy, IMHO. And I also agree for the most
> > > part about LP5; but I would say give it a few more listens. Initially
> > > I thought it was very bad, because it was too much complex almost
> > > random Cichilisuite-style Autechre which I didn't care for.... my
> > > favorite Autechre stuff is on Anti, tri repetae++ and Envane. And
> > > they seemed to have veered away from that.
> > > BUT, after listening to LP5 more, it is warming up to me... so maybe
> > > I am starting to see the "Picture". I think there new music is just
> > > so much more complicated that its harder to understand or get a
> > > handle on... which is bad in some ways because maybe some people
> > > that understood their previous music won't understand this album,
> > > when they could deeply understand their previous work.
> > >
> > > So, I guess the bottom line is to have some more patience...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > -Aronne
> >
> >