quoted 3 lines Someone has still to explain to me what links this band with anything> Someone has still to explain to me what links this band with anything
> remotely IDM.
> I am asking a serious question here.
I don't think anyone has claimed they are 'IDM' or have anything to do with
it apart from a lot of people on this list seem to like them. I just can't
believe that some people listen exclusively to IDM (if their desktop piles
are representative of their entire collections). Some people should try
listening to other music. They might just like it.
Going through a load of MBV interviews a few weeks back I found this quote
from Kevin Shields:
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You've mentioned working with computers. Based on what you've been saying
right now, it sounds halfway between frustration at getting used to working
with new equipment and, on the other hand, something liberating, trying
something new from scratch. Is that the case?
I don't know if I follow your question, but basically I don't like shying
away from technology on principle, but after all this time I've come to a
certain conclusion on technology and where it's not worth dealing with. Some
of it is not worth dealing with because it seems to pull people in a certain
area, and that area is slightly cold. Technology is capable of producing a
human, warm music. Whatever you can imagine, technology can do it. But the
methods in which you have to use the stuff, all the computers and stuff,
it's so unmusical it's unreal. I see it as the same problem as why a lot of
classical music is ultimately cold music: it doesn't touch people. Why is it
always that essentially folk music, from jazz to whatever experimental,
avant-garde rock music, is ultimately a kind of folk music, it feeds into
one area and ultimately influences itself? Whereas avant-garde classical
music, or straight orchestra-based music, it seems like very few people are
able to come along and do something that touches people in a big way. I
think it's because of the way they do it. When there's too much intellect
involved, I think it's ultimately dead. It can impress people, in a Wagner
way, complicated, but it's boring! Kind of like progressive rock! It keeps
on going wrong; people get into a progressive rock state of mind and justify
what they do by monumental sort of achievements. Ultimately all music,
whether the people know it or not, is very culturally influenced and
socially influenced. Otherwise music wouldn't sound so different all over
the world.
KUCI 1996
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Ring any bells?
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