On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Miles Egan wrote:
This
quoted 3 lines is just lazy. It takes about 2 seconds to set up a kick drum loop like> is just lazy. It takes about 2 seconds to set up a kick drum loop like
> that and I'd no sooner spend an hour listening to it than I would a
> metronome. This is anti-human music.
I loved this last part; "anti-human music." Brilliant. A new genre -
something like mills (hard techno) and cylob's industrial folk songs. My
favourite. Brilliant thought miles, even if it had an adverse effect.
About "Anti-human music;" If I'm unfamiliar with a new employee at a
good record store, I'll ask them if they have anything that sounds
totally foreign, made in space, possesed by aliens, et.al. Now i can ask
for some "Anti-human music."
quoted 4 lines I'm sure I could come up> I'm sure I could come up
> with a simple computer algorithm that could churn out disks at
> interesting as the Liquid room mix all day long.
>
You see, you didn't pay attention to my last response. It's impossible
for any dj (if there are any better than mills, I don't know) to produce
a mix better than this on cd. It's LIVE; no re-editing in the studio, no
mix and if you fuck up, you re-do it; it's fucking live! If you went to
the liquid room that night, that's what you'd see, along with punters
massive stompin' it out all night long. A single "computer algorithm"
can't churn out the heart/soul of this dj who spins the best in
"Anti-Human Music."(makes sense, eh)
quoted 4 lines This has certainly been churned through before, but I think it's> This has certainly been churned through before, but I think it's
> intersting to note how little of the music discussed on the IDM list
> really is dance music.
>
what? Aren't we discussing dance music right now? Even if you don't
like Mills, his sets are definitely dance music; that you cannot
dispute. People dance to this "idiotic pounding", because it's moving,
hard, and lovely "anti human music".
James Benjamin Gill-----jgill@u.arizona.edu**********************************