quoted 15 lines I'm pretty much over IDM-style IDM. IDM has solidified into a genre with
>>I'm pretty much over IDM-style IDM. IDM has solidified into a genre with
>>its own melodic & rhythmic conventions, less of it moves me >>much. There
>>are of course ample exceptions to even this, as I'm >>still thrilled by
>>Ae, almost everything on Chocolate Industries, >>plenty of Schematic,
>>etc., but there seems to be more and more >>generic material out there.
>>And I'm not even saying that it's *bad*, >>merely that that particular
>>genre isn't terribly interesting to me.
>
>I must echo these sentiments. I'm the one who pointed out the growing
>homoginazation of sound with artists like Quench, Crunch, >Gimmik and Swap.
>Now I'm seeing it more and more coming out of the >Schematic camp, with
>Richard Devine and Otto Von Schirach heading the >charge. Nothing on the
>House of Distaction comp moves me all that >much, although it gets my vote
>for most impressive artwork of the >year.
>
I think whenever a new flavor of idm pops up and gets pig-piled by all the
hangers-on its up to us to weed through the pre-fab copy cats and find the
artists that truely innovate and music that's worth paying for...
quoted 2 lines Really, the most exciting stuff for me lately has been break-beat driven,
>>Really, the most exciting stuff for me lately has been break-beat driven,
>>and all that "broken beat" stuff
i still don't completely understand what broken beat/west london/etc is...
(any comps that show off this style or real stand out artists?)
quoted 4 lines I find myself puuting on more techno and break-beat like Surgeon,
>
>I find myself puuting on more techno and break-beat like Surgeon,
>Underworld, Meat Beat Manifesto, Speedy J. Hell, I might even be more apt
>to throw on some old Frontline Assembly album than the new >Phoenecia.
I keep finding myself with at least one old industrial album in my play
rotations (skinny puppy, FLA, TKK's first album, etc), i keep trying to find
newer acts in this vein, but they all just remind me why i stopped in the
first place...
David
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