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quoted 12 lines On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:35:18 -0800 (PST), ed c wrote:> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:35:18 -0800 (PST), ed c wrote:
> > Thats what i love about IDM, we are the cutting edge before the edge is cut.
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> Bon mot of the day, or perhaps mot juste?
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> The thing about being cutting edge is that you start to run out of
> ways to innovate. Now that we've got music based on distortion so
> pervasive that it's just modulated square waves, and beats cut up to
> the point that they oscillate in the low audio range, fake modular
> synths on our computers that rivals Hans Zimmer's Wall Of Moog, and
> samples so warped, stretched, and pitched they sound like radios tuned
> between stations, where do you go from here?
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You discover that someone else has already done it, so it wasn't as innovative as was once thought (which is often the case with stylized IDM), or you deconstruct the term 'innovation' to find its dependence on the term 'standard' and reverse the order so that what was once standard becomes the new innovation (?). Led Zeppelin, anyone? :-)
jeff