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quoted 3 lines I don't mean to be a dick, but this thread is really starting to piss me
> I don't mean to be a dick, but this thread is really starting to piss me
> off- I can't believe the arrogance and being exuded by uninformed people
> on this list right now.
Booyaka cum selecta.
quoted 9 lines I don't know how people can say that IDM is complex music that you sit
> I don't know how people can say that IDM is complex music that you sit
> and listen to because it's so hard to understand- I have yet to find
> *any* IDM like this. IDM is simply house music with beats that are
> slightly weirder and different synths. It's not any less repetitive or
> any more "heady."
>
> Most fucking IDM producers don't even know how to make a key change,
> much less write music that requires me to sit down because it's so
> fucking complex i can't listen to it and stand up at the same time.
I couldn't agree more.
quoted 5 lines Sure, a lot of bad house (and there is a lot of it) sounds the same, but
> Sure, a lot of bad house (and there is a lot of it) sounds the same, but
> how many Autechre clones are there out there? They're certainly not
> doing anything crazier than a lot of the house producers out there, of
> whom there are a lot of great ones, especially in the "tech-house"
> areas.
I would venture to say that many of the new "tech-house minimal
groove" releases of late are many, many times more "challenging" and
interesting than any IDM I've heard in the last few
years. "Challenging" in that they actually are doing something different,
redefining "house" and taking it to a whole new level. If you pick up a
Perlon record, you're actually going to hear something that is fresh and
knocks your socks off, not some rehashed, DSP wank-off track made my some
geezer who couldn't write a funky track if their legs were on the
line. The same can be said for a lot of newer techno records. Please,
PLEASE, let's not write off genres of music until we've heard all they
have to offer... that's not a very "intelligent" thing to do.
-andrew
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