ed c wrote:
quoted 4 lines I was reading a book that was trying to say Nude Photo was the beggining of IDM. Does anyb>I was reading a book that was trying to say Nude Photo was the beggining of IDM. Does anybody feel that way cause i sure don't. Thats kind of like saying Donna Summer invented Post-Rock.
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While I might not agree with that statement in a vacuum, I would say
that anyone who feels like IDM just floated down one day in the 1990s is
missing a big aspect of the roots involved. Derrick May has a LOT more
to do with IDM than Donna has to do with post-rock any way you shake it;
that's just a bad analogy, sorry.
Take it back to the late 80s, early 90s - where did Carl Craig get his
start? A.R.T. is the obvious link between Detroit and IDM with the whole
TBD, Plaid, Degiorgio, Stasis LINK with the Detroit sound as well as the
fact that they were doing things on the same label. However you want to
slot Monolake, Basic Channel and that whole crew, if you don't think
there's a connection to Detroit, think again. I'm not a Detroit monger
(just because I live very nearby), but it's just the truth.
Detroit didn't happen in a vacuum, either - you can kick it back to
Kraftwerk, the experimentalists (Stockhausen, Dockstader, etc.) or even
Musique Concret if you wish. Even if you do so, you still can't eascape
the Detroit influence. And if Detroit never happened, who knows - it
might have sprung in some fashion from Chicago or acid house, both of
which have their fingers in the pots as well. Everything came from
somewhere and if you deny the dance music/techno leg of the whole of
IDM, you have a truncated version - an amputee, i.e, a very limited
definition which becomes more so the farther back you trace roots.
jeff
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