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For those of us who have been around this list for years, all this
blubbering around, trying to collect skam and autechre in 2000 like it's
going out of style IS pop. To those of us who remember Balil, B12, Beaumont
Hannant, or RDJ when he was Diceman, IDM has BECOME pop.
More than anything, pop culture is a matter of perspective. IDM may not be
full-on pop a la britney spears or MTV-crud, but to many of us on this list,
it IS pop.
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Of course, I like what I like and I couldn't care less whether it's pop or
underground. I don't listen for you, I listen for me.
---brian
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From: isophlux [mailto:isophlux@isophlux.com]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:36 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] Six of one! 1/2 dozen of the other!!!
Everything is Pop music. Some is just more Pop than others.
quoted 3 lines Anti-Pop eats itself.>Anti-Pop eats itself.
>It occurs to me also that anti-elitism quickly becomes yet another
>form of elitism. One can never escape.
Fuck that!!! Then everyone gets a free pass outta jail!!!
I did not say Anti-pop or anything about anti-elitism. It's allot
simpler then that. I just stated it's not Pop music!!! When this so
called IDM music starts riots with 12 and 15 year girls and boys out
side the M-TV studios, on total request live with Carson, then it's pop
music. Or the next time your at the gas station and you pick up a new
Skam release while you pay for your gas, then it's pop music!!!! Or when
you go see IDM the Movie, then it's pop music. Or a NBC special on the
making of a IDM artist, then it's pop music. So lets not go down the
arty farty tip on what's pop music and what's the rating of IDM on the
Pop-o-meter. So when I'm riding my ass in a new Mercedes SLK 55 down
Broadway with a super model by my side sucking on my fingers, then I'll
think different about the multi-shades/omni-ism of pop music. But for
know we are just lucky to have as much distribution as we do.
Oh!and about the time on tracks: Who cares about if what you make today
is in style 6 months from now. The main reason artist make music is to
suggest a mood, or a statement on the way they feel at the time. To
produce something for themselves, and if it gets to see the light of day
on a record,Mp3,CD-R or what ever, and they get to share it with 5
people or 5 million people then good. As long as people can walk away
with something from the music, then that's all that counts. So it's not
about get it out quick before it goes out of style!! It's about making
music that you can play two months or two years later and still fell
good about it. So fuck that cashing in shit!!! If that's the case, lets
all wait around and see what AFX or Warp or whoever does next so we can
ride their ass to the bank and cash in our 50 cents.
Isophlux
Oh!! and thanks Willy B.
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