The complete archives from this list are now online on
techno.stanford.edu, available via ftp, gopher, or http, under the
directory /pub/raves/music/idm. All 2526 posts up through the end of
January are there, and I (or Mike) will put new months up on the 1st
of every month (or as close to that as we can).
And yes, Mike is right in his corrections of my previous post about
Mosaic, et al. I was simply trying to cram a lot of stuff into two
paragraphs without boring people into ignoring it, but Mike's post
was more accurate (except having a SLIP connection == direct
connection, in my opinion).
ObIdm - A few quick and dirty reviews:
1) Renegade Soundwave (self-titled single)
Not bad, a little boring, and his vocals are less than
interesting, but the last 3 mixes (two of them by Leftfield) are
great. Worth the import price.
2) Applied Rhythmic Technology, and Prelude Pt. 1(both on B12)
less impressed than I thought I would be - the music
is just not refined or effected enough to hold my interest long and
transcend into godlike territory, like the Autechre album. It's
fairly stripped down, but without the interesting melodi bits that
make good stripped-down songs good. ART is better than Prelude 1,
but both are only about half as interesting as the Philosophy
of Sound and Machine compilation.
3) Divination - Ambient Dub Vol. 1
Bill Laswell's stuff sans Orb is pretty good - in the
same vein as but aslightly less interesting than "Strange Cargo III".
BTW, is "SC2" good too?
Brian