--On 10 January 2006 13:20 -0800 chthonic <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
wrote:
quoted 10 lines so... then could that be summed up as saying, "the people who like IDM>> so... then could that be summed up as saying, "the people who like IDM
>> killed IDM"?
>>
>> :)
>>
>> joshua.
>
>
> heh. well that would presume i am declaring IDM "dead"...and no one with
> half a brain would touch that thread with a 12k pole.
Yes. Look at 'rock'. I'm aware that people (mostly journalists) have been
declaring that 'Rock is dead' since at least 1975 (with a frequency
rivalled only by trumpetings about the "Future of Rock'n'Roll"). Now, if
rock is indeed dead, then it's certainly left a corpse that, if not exactly
'good-looking', is still enacting a passable Imitation of Life.
So a few labels have closed down... that's not necessarily an indication of
ill-health, let alone the Death of a Genre. In addition to the impact of
wider availability of this music on a shared/pillaged basis, could it not
also be partly because of the inability to sustain the larger number of
labels now in existence that were initiated on the back of interest created
by a once smaller number of labels? Just a thought.
alan
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