If I want a stage show, I'll go and watch a fucking lame ass
punk band dicking around, or some stupid wankers in masks
nailing their genitals to boards. Personally I go for the
music, the intellectual stimulation that is most IDM, if I
want to dance the night away I know I won't do it seeing
kid606, so don't expect to.
When I go to see electronic music I want the person to be up
there doing music, using whatever is their instrument to
maximum effect, be it laptop, synths or kazoo. If they're
running around with a carrot stuck up their arse for "comic
effect", it is unlikely to be a good set. I think the best
place you could see IDM would be in a coffee shop situation
(prefferably the dutch variant), where you can be at ease
with the music and not have to dance, but actually be able
to listen.
There is a growing population of "shite" IDM bands that
somehow have managed to get a recording contract and yet are
producing stuff that is in reality unoriginal and
uninspiring, I believe this is the death throws of the
genre, nothing visceral and different is arriving,
everything is homogenising, new artists ripoff, old artists
churn out bland spam.
I blame the internet.
cheerio
georgewilliamson
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I have recurring dreams where I can't find things
georgewilliamson@btinternet.com
http://www.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/~emju49/
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