quoted 2 lines if you want to do something unlike anything before, you have to know>if you want to do something unlike anything before, you have to know
>what has gone before
This is an old argument and I guess a decent one, but the flip side is true
also.
The only example I know of is the extremely non-IDM career of Eddie Van
Halen. He started out playing piano drums, but when he moved to guitar he
didn't consider that you weren't supposed to use both hands on the fretboard
(like a piano), so he did. And in doing so revolutionized rock guitar
playing.
So how does this relate to electronic music? Well, I'm not sure. It seems
that all or most of the rules of traditional pop music have already been
broken. Now it's up to somebody to further evolution and break all the rules
that are left.
Then again, didn't Cage or Schoenburg already do that?
Now on: Fanny- Fear and Loathing for Dummies (definitely for fans of
Venetian Snares)