quoted 6 lines In a message dated 1/26/01 10:44:38 PM, chuck0@cfom-music.com writes:
>
> In a message dated 1/26/01 10:44:38 PM, chuck0@cfom-music.com writes:
>
> << Guitars are dead
>
> You must be one of them folks who only listens to IDM.
HEH HEH. knew someone would taker the bait. :)
Actually I broadened my tastes a while back whe I realized i was going
nuts after listening to too much IDm and techno and electronic stuff. So I
got me some Fela, some Johnny Cash, some Hank Williams and I was all set.
quoted 3 lines You might as well say all string instruments are dead, or percussion
> You might as well say all string instruments are dead, or percussion
> instruments are dead. I might agree that majority of rock music nowadays
> suck.
Yeah. There does not seem to be to much innovation in the world of
rock. Is it me, or was the music I listened to back when i was a teen in
the 80's infinitely better than most of the shit out there now? An dI was
digging Big Black, The Fall, The Cure, The Smiths, Bowhows, and alla that
stuff.
quoted 2 lines But it's all about being creative about what you are doing. IDM is
> But it's all about being creative about what you are doing. IDM is
> dead yo!
Maybe.
quoted 1 line All this shit is starting to sound the same.
> All this shit is starting to sound the same.
mmmm, yes perhaps... i think one has to dig deeper nowadays to find the
innovators.
quoted 7 lines I can't really say
> I can't really say
> that though, beacuse there's so many people making music now that it all
> starts to sound bland. Ahhh...but then you have artists that stick out like
> a sore thumb, not intentionally trying not to sound like whomever, but
> sounding different than what's out there because that's just what they're
> mind is creating. (ie (in my opinion) phoenecia, scott heren,
> arovane...etc.)
Yeah. I love Arovane. I can;t stop listening to Atol Scrap. Anyone
who thinks it sound slike Autechre is kidn of missing it.
<plug> And keep an ear out when Cathode ray tube's "Subzero Sensei comes
out in Feburary on C-FOM. </plug>
quoted 2 lines Props to anyone out there that still incorporate acoustic instruments in
> Props to anyone out there that still incorporate acoustic instruments in
> their music. Keepin' it real!
Sure.
quoted 4 lines Mogwai? Enh, they're okay. >>>live, this band is incredible!!! their live
> Mogwai? Enh, they're okay. >>>live, this band is incredible!!! their live
> show is a 50 minute cresendo (spelling?) into a wall of beautiful noise.....
> and their cover of that Link track from Artificial Intelligence on WARP 10+3
> is ever so lovely....
Yes, this I liked. maybe I shall go see them when they come round
again.
Charles/C-FOM
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