Okay, I know this is gonna be a touchy subject, but here goes. I was
recently complaining to a friend about 'Confield' and some of the more
recent IDM releases. I was saying how the music seems to be coming more from
the "brain" and not so much from the "heart" (I'm not talking about all IDM
artists here or even just about Autechre). It seems to me that some in the
genre are going much the same way as modern art. It's less about evoking
emotion and more about making an ideological statement. Take, for example, a
piece I saw in the Tate Modern the other day. A nail stuck in a wall (ie no
canvas). Okay, it's briefly interesting, but not very lasting. I would
compare a lot of the "grooveless" music (note the quote marks) in IDM to
this type of art. I'm not saying it isn't interesting or emotion provoking
(Confield=discomfort), but it won't go down in the annals of great music. I
think that leading from the brain will be a short lived approach to this
music because emotions are infinity more interesting to us as humans. In my
opinion Amber is better than Confield for this very reason (to use Autechre
as a comparison again). I'm not saying that music has to be emotionally
hypercharged all the time, but a little a bit in-between would be nice. It
can be clever and groovy at the same time. What do you folks think?
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