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Juho Hietala
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Thu, 13 Jun 2019 01:26:14 +0200
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Re: IDM's tombstone
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Yeah, it mixes well with techno and electro in general and this whole proliferation of the “sound” makes it a lot easier to toss some old DSP bangers in. The sound is kinda timeless too by now. I was just playing HAT’s DSP Holiday earlier today and it sounds just as fresh today as it did in 98.
quoted 75 lines On 11 Jun 2019, at 19:35, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:> On 11 Jun 2019, at 19:35, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote: > > gotta agree with Juho. way way less "LOL WHAT EVEN IS THIS" when you play an obscure idm track in public nowadays > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:33 PM Juho Hietala <hietala@gmail.com <mailto:hietala@gmail.com>> wrote: > In my experience IDM is alive and well and people appreciate it in general more than they used to. I get way more response these days from IDM sets that I would in the past. Feels like the world is catching up to the early 00s sometimes. > > > >> On 11 Jun 2019, at 15:56, Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com <mailto:laurent.knauth@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I agree that IDM didn't happen in a vacuum. >> However, i also agree about «glitches and retrigs, weird jittery max/msp techniques and all kinds of» tools that wouldn't exist before, confering their unheard imprint on this music, even shaping it completely. >> >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:38 AM Ransom Schafer <ransom.schafer@gmail.com <mailto:ransom.schafer@gmail.com>> wrote: >> I often wonder then how this isn't considered idm >> I even hear bits of house music on BGM >> >> YMO- 'Music Plans' >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5WJ3BiJ5jg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5WJ3BiJ5jg> >> >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:03 AM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com <mailto:clinta@gmail.com>> wrote: >> the thing is that, in my opinion, the ideas of IDM, much like drum and bass, exploded out into a hundred other genres, and you now hear people uses glitches and retrigs, weird jittery max/msp techniques and all kinds of trippy gear hacks, as commonplace musical elements in 'mainstream' music even >> there's entire swaths of music that at one time wouldn't have had a label to go under and would have just been shelved as 'idm' in the 90s and now have their whole own sections / genres >> >> Clint Anderson >> Systems Engineer >> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:28 PM Connor Higgins <connor1higgins@gmail.com <mailto:connor1higgins@gmail.com>> wrote: >> "1992-1995, but still haunts us today despite 'braindance' being just a smidgen less conceited" >> >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:11 AM Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com <mailto:laurent.knauth@gmail.com>> wrote: >> I find this thread quite amusing as i'm quite obsessed with the previous decade myself : 1983-1993. >> The Depeche « Alan Wilder » Mode era. >> >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 3:40 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com <mailto:clinta@gmail.com>> wrote: >> 1993 - whenever hapbt dies >> >> Clint Anderson >> Systems Engineer >> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 5:23 PM Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net <mailto:eric@explosive.net>> wrote: >> "It's pronounced aw-tek-uhr" >> >> - Eric Sorenson - N45.569, W122.763 - http://twitter.com/ahpook <http://twitter.com/ahpook> - >> >> > On Jun 4, 2019, at 11:24 PM, Adrien Capozzi <a@adrien75.com <mailto:a@adrien75.com>> wrote: >> > >> > What dates would you put on IDM’s tombstone? >> > Maybe: >> > >> > 1993 - 2003 >> > >> > What do you think? >> > >> > Also a what message would you put on there besides RIP? >> > >> > “These guys thought they were pretty clever.” >> > or maybe >> > “It was never a proper genre name anyway." >> > >> > >> > >> > Adrien Capozzi >> > https://adrien75.bandcamp.com/ <https://adrien75.bandcamp.com/> >> > >> >