At 10:21 AM -0600 10/31/01, somrux wrote:
quoted 19 lines You have a good point, but the following line that I included in my original>You have a good point, but the following line that I included in my original
>post: "a place where people can discuss the music of Aphex Twin, Boards of
>Canada, Squarepusher, and the like" is just a general description of what
>goes on here ("and the like" being the key phrase here). It'd take way more
>patience than I have to list all of the other artists that are discussed
>here besides the ones I mentioned... there are just too many.
>
>Looking back through the tons archives, the artists you mentioned (B.
>Fleischmann, Solvent, Arovane, Prefuse 73) are discussed very very regularly
>here, so I guess that I'm not seeing what your gripe is about... Was it just
>a general one saying that ppl on-list should stop talking about Aphex or BoC
>or squarepusher, or is that you feel other artists in the same genre
>(more-or-less) should be talked about more?
>
>eh???
>
>I don't get it.
>
>-somrux.
My major gripe is that many people only know about a few "IDM"
artists, most obviously Aphex, Autechre, and Squarepusher. Anything
these guys release is scrutinized and examined and gone over like
it's the Shroud of Tourin, when in fact the stuff they are releasing
isn't worth even purchasing. The attention on this list, in my eyes,
should be going to all the new and spectacular releases coming out.
We should be debating just how GOOD the new Solvent CD is, not how
awful DrukQs turned out.
While new releases/artists are mentioned, most listeners still live
in the past. They tell new electronic music fans to "check out
Autechre's old stuff", instead of telling them to get the latest
Novel23 CD, for example. While appreciation for history is good, and
necessary, the tremendous focus the "classic" artists get on this
list is disproportional to the quality of the music they are
currently producing.
I guess what I am saying is to get over the old music, and start
paying attention to the new artists.
-shane
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