Umm...
I'd guess that what's missing isn't so much humanity or emotion, but
primitivism. I tend to listen to a lot of IDM, techno and post rock. This is,
by and large, quite highly developed music, either in the content of the
music or the equipment used to make it.
However, I also listen to a fair bit of indie, punk, singer songwritery
stuff, folk and so on. I'd say that the reason that I enjoy this is partly
that it's relatively easy listening when I want uncomplicated thrills, but
also that it's so basic. For the same reasons reasons that city dwellers
drive 4 by 4s, and software companies go paintballing (and for all you
romanticists, poets move to the Lake District), a night of clicks and cuts
leaves me desperate for something totally organic and raw, and guitars or
vocals fill this better than synths. IDM presumably prompts this feeling more
than most music because it's so highly evolved.
Sorry if I've rehashed anyone's points.
This has to be the most thought provoking thread in a long time.
jorkens
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