Here's my signature on this one, AGREED Cesium!
quoted 1 line As they say in the US..."Its the Shit!"
>As they say in the US..."Its the Shit!"
Nawh, Cesium...you should know who to come too for vernacular..........The
shit is Tight----
Hk!
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From: Cesium5Hz@aol.com [mailto:Cesium5Hz@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:47 AM
To: idm@hyperreal.org; stevie@ignition.org.uk
Subject: [idm] Re: missing: romanticism ??
quoted 3 lines There's plenty of IDM around with emotional content (Mu-Ziq - 'Balsa
>
> There's plenty of IDM around with emotional content (Mu-Ziq - 'Balsa
> Lightning'; Biosphere - 'Sphere Of No Form'; for examples) and there's
heaps
quoted 2 lines with energy...but that's not enough. It's relatively easy to create music
> with energy...but that's not enough. It's relatively easy to create music
> with emotion and energy, it's harder to really hold the listener's
interest
quoted 1 line for 10 minutes...the ultimate challenge is to be able to program music
> for 10 minutes...the ultimate challenge is to be able to program music
with
quoted 3 lines soul. A live band like Queen (or Prince when he did Sexy MF) have soul
> soul. A live band like Queen (or Prince when he did Sexy MF) have soul
> oozing out of their pores. There's something that happens when music is
> programmed and it isn't to do with quantization or conversion from
analogue
quoted 4 lines to digital. I don't know why, but for me...somehow it seems to lose its
> to digital. I don't know why, but for me...somehow it seems to lose its
> soul.
>
> Maybe I'm not explaining myself properly...does anybody see what I'm
trying
quoted 1 line to get at?
> to get at?
Perhaps a lot of people who are commenting on this (apparently) lack of soul
and sexiness in electronic music should expand their horizons to the deeper
side of house music which fits in to the idm context. I've brought this up
but there still seems to be some degree of ignorance regarding this form of
music. Only a handful of people on this list have privileged their ears to
the music of Mr. Fingers (Larry Heard), Derick May (Rhythm is Rhythm),
Stacey Pullen, Kenny Larkin, Carl Craig (Psyche/BFC/ Paperclip People), Dan
Curtin (Space/ Apogee) Chris Gray...etc
Some of the most soulful music made by Chicago's Mr Fingers remain a
standard
for electronic music today, including the UK side of electronica - Just
check
out tracks like Can you feel it, Amnesia, Stars, Washing Machine...and you
have the basis for music produced by Nuron, Stasis, B12, As One, Reload etc
And Curtin, Larkin and Craig really are powerhouse producers of sublime
electronic music. Between them they have an amazing collection of works that
would floor anyone exposed to it. (Still does for me)
For those that are interested in the more sexy side of things, then check
out
the RA of upcoming new artist Sweet Abraham. This new release on Chris
Gray's
Deep4Life label will guarantee to wet your appetite.
http://diasporarecordings.com/new_release.html
Alright perhaps this music is different and soes not incorporate the breaks
in beats and
more complex rhythmic structures of AFX, Ae, Funkstorung etc. But it is no
less "idm" because it is not extremely sophisticated.
As they say in the US..."Its the Shit!"
A_Zed
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quoted 2 lines Stevie.
>
> Stevie.
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