Yeah - i think you absolutely hit it. The combination of
massive file sharring and chat has really sort of killed alot
of music email lists. People just check it out themselves
rather than get recommendations. Or if not, they chat.
Also i've seen alot of people going to message boards
or livejournal instead of email lists. With all these different
resources, i'd imagine a smaller % of people are joining mailing lists.
I guess its just a waning form of communication.
- cutups
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gil Videla" <mvidelag@yahoo.com>
To: "Glenn McClements" <glenn.mcclements@openwave.com>; <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] IDM is (the) shit (was puppy)
quoted 2 lines How has things like Soulseek affected our list/scene/genre????> How has things like Soulseek affected our list/scene/genre????
> Maybe we're not really talking much because it is soo easy to get this
stuff
quoted 1 line we move so quickly from one to another not allowing enough time to> we move so quickly from one to another not allowing enough time to
appreciate them?
quoted 14 lines Just a thought.> Just a thought.
>
>
> Glenn McClements <glenn.mcclements@openwave.com> wrote:
> >I don't know about the rest of you guys but vocals, dancing and
> >community are the things that excite me these days. I don't need all
> >three at the same time but I do need at least one. What's on my ipod?
> >1994, you know, when IDM was the shit! There's such a lack of focus
> >these days, you can't mix one record with the other because everyone's
> >off being an egotistical circuit board surfer. When did we all get so
> >insular and mellow, it makes me feel old.
>
>
> I have to agree, hardly anything released this year has interested me
apart from the new MF Doom album. Recently I've been rediscovering/getting
into early AE, Throbbing Gristle, Kraftwerk, Black Dog, Humanoid, Juan
Atkins and my word does it sound FRESH compared to most of the stuff
released recently. I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that
dance/electronic music in general reached it's peak around 15 years ago.
Seriously. Combined with a massive decline in posts to this list (eBay
listings not withstanding) makes me think that there are less and less good
new ideas out there and that the tenuious IDM scene is dead.
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