well, to be honest, i hope the next big thing is the utter dissolution of
genre, something i am continually trying to do with my music. sorry for the
self-promo, but:
caural- paint ep (chocolate industries)
caural- initial experiments in 3-D (toshoklabs)
new album coming march 10th (japan), april 30th (usa, etc.)
z :D
quoted 41 lines From: "George Williamson" <georgewilliamson@btinternet.com>
>From: "George Williamson" <georgewilliamson@btinternet.com>
>To: "Inconvenient Dark Matter" <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] next big thing
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:06:01 -0000
>
> > Nearly everything coming out now is derivative of
> > something, since we had such a broad base to begin with. So all the
>mixing
> > of genres is like "yeah? we had that back in '96"
>
>But there are new genres popping up everywhere just now, generally they do
>seem to be mishmashes of glitch and anything (although I'm happy with this
>until we get Country and Western Glitch), but I feel the point is that
>although the mixing thing was done in '90s we've now got a many new
>elements
>to start with.
>
>Personally I think that the next big thing will be, irritatingly, fusion of
>electronic click-hop and crap mainstream dance vocals, like Bjork but much
>more R&B/soul styled. Herbert comes close to this at times, but his stuff
>is
>still to good for a mainstream audience.
>
>In the IDM (cringe) whirlpool, my personal favourite for win is Venetian
>Snares too. His stuff on "doll doll doll" is much better than his earlier
>stuff (mainly due to better diversity and more interesting developments)
>and
>hopefully he'll evolve through the gabber style stuff into something more
>comfortably listenable and still as insane. I hope that Chris Clarke
>releases something good soon, that cements him in firmly as a future
>direction.
>
>cheerio
>
>georgewilliamson
>
>
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