It's this kind of broad stroked crap that pisses me off about many IDMers'
thoughts on house; you hear one hipster house record, Luomo, put out by an
ersatz "IDM" dude, Vladislav Delay, go all nuts for it (because it *is* a great
record) and then retreat to your bunker and return to lobbing hand grenades at
the rest of the house world, rather than approach it from the more open-minded
POV: "Wow. Maybe my initial thoughts on house, WYHIWYG, are coming from a point
of ignorance; maybe house isn't all bad. Maybe I've just knee jerked my way into
thinking it all sucks." Guess what. Intelligence and house aren't mutually
exclusive terms. There's just as many deep house records that rival the
complexity, thoughtfulness and creativity of any Kit Clayton record; hundreds of
them, in fact. That you've never heard them is fine; nobody can listen to it
all. But hell, to dismiss a whole genre based on erroneous, outdated assumptions
is as close-minded as some metalhead saying all electronic music sounds like
disco. There's some weird shit going on in house music right now, weirder and as
exciting as anything coming out of the IDM camp.
Two mixes to start with: Terry Lee Brown Jr.'s Cafe 3, a stunner of a deep
house mix that just came out. And Jesper Dahlback's nice Stockholm Sessions 2,
on Turbo, is also pretty great -- it even contains Luomo's "Market" 12". You can
check any of the Force Tracks 12"s for other nice minimal house records, though
some are better than others; I actually like the Junkie Sartre & Hexaquart
"Ignorance" 12" better than the Luomo. It's beautiful. By far the best house
vinyl I have is put out by Beige Records, their first one -- the Bitwise
Operator's "Tardy Tracks." Genius, if you can track it down.
www.beigerecords.com has mp3s of it.
guh.
rr
quoted 1 line With most house records, WYHIWYG.>> With most house records, WYHIWYG.
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