Sorry, just to confirm, the BoC is not being released this year, more like
next spring.
----- Original Message -----
From: david turgeon <david@evolutiontech.com>
To: Tom Millar <tmillar@usa.net>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: (idm) pooey on autechre..
quoted 2 lines No offense, in fact after listening to ep7 four or five times I'd offer> > No offense, in fact after listening to ep7 four or five times I'd offer
> > support to your reticence, but I thought I'd just point it out. Shall we
make
quoted 1 line pledges now to not buy the new Boards Of Canada album coming out in> > pledges now to not buy the new Boards Of Canada album coming out in
December,
quoted 16 lines just so we can be different?> > just so we can be different?
>
> actually, yes. there are many more interesting albums to buy, in my
> humble & easily dismissable opinion. all of which get far less good
> press than they deserve, while decent idm acts like boards of canada or
> say bola get so overhyped they actually obscure other good music which
> doesn't live by said hype.
>
> as a side note: supporting the same acts over & over regardless of what
> they do just puts the entire music scene in stagnation & forces new
> artists to imitate the 'current sound' to get a piece of hype
> themselves. that's what you get from buying ae records out of habit,
> rather than because you really like them.
>
> ~ david
>