quoted 11 lines vHmmm....idm (at least some of it) has possibly suffocated itself with> vHmmm....idm (at least some of it) has possibly suffocated itself with
> redundancies and (in some cases) indie has branched into that 'sound garden',
> picked some nice flowers and redecorated to make itself more interesting.
> Lets face it - nothing is pure, and even if it was possible to be so, it can't
> remain so for long without becoming stagnant. Limiting one's self to a
> particular genre is just sad anyway...at my age, I've seen brilliance in too
> many of them to think otherwise. There's always creative sparks floating here
> and there. They burn out here, they reappear there - they cross pollinate and
> defy categories, they become the high watermarks/defining moments of some
> categories. And what sounds fresh will always, to some extent, depend on where
> your ears have been as much as it does on how good they are.
Yep, I agree with pretty much all of that.
But it'll be interesting to see if electronic musicians can steal back some ideas from indie rock / free folk / New Weirdness... traditionally the most fertile and exciting periods of IDM (often fertile to the point of requiring a redefinition of what you think of as IDM) seem to come after another genre comes up with something really interesting and IDM people nick it and abuse it and turn it into something strange and different...
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