This man is brilliant.
On 12/7/05, David Sim <pmxds@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
quoted 37 lines Starting a new experimental label in our current climate has proven>
> > Starting a new experimental label in our current climate has proven
> > strange. The press continually make us feel like die-hard Seattle
> Grungers
> > clinging desparately to our flanel shirts....is this for real? Are we
> > dying?
>
> tbh, if cheap knockoffs of Plaid or Ae are dying (figuratively), then I'm
> all for it.
>
> OTOH, people trying to make new and unusual and
> not-purely-for-the-dancefloor music using electronics seems unlikely to stop
> (or to stop being interesting), and that was always the definition of IDM
> that I preferred.
>
> It's like saying that jazz was a 'dying genre' when swing gave way to
> bebop. The only thing that's dying is music that's stagnating. If you want
> to define IDM to be only the stagnant part of the music, then of course
> it'll die. If you define it to be the 'infinite possibilities' part of the
> music, then it's in fine fettle.
>
> d.
>
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