this, in my humble opinion, is incredibly arrogant,
ignorant and elitist.
--- George Williamson
<georgewilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
quoted 55 lines If I want a stage show, I'll go and watch a fucking
> 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
> --
> I have recurring dreams where I can't find things
> georgewilliamson@btinternet.com
> http://www.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/~emju49/
>
>
>
>
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