goddamn, if good idm isn't the most fucking exciting music
on the face of the planet
very well said
quoted 12 lines From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>Reply-To: <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] indie killed the idm star?
>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:20:46 -0800
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "joshua twentythree" <joshua@ropeswingcities.com>
>Reply-To: joshua@ropeswingcities.com
>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:47:03 -0700 (MST)
>
> >> on the other hand, many electronic music writers and fans seem
ready to
quoted 2 lines split off and name a
> >> split off and name a
> >> new genre every time a new instrument is added or beats are changedquoted 3 lines around
>around
> >> a bit. thus
> >> rather than giving electronica/IDM a shot in the arm, the addition
of
quoted 8 lines guitars simply created
> >> guitars simply created
> >> yet another sub-genre for a weary public to assimlate or ignore -
> >> "indietronica". united we
> >> stand, divided we fall.
> >
> >
> >
> >so... then could that be summed up as saying, "the people who like
IDM
quoted 8 lines killed IDM"?
> >killed IDM"?
> >
> >:)
> >
> >joshua.
>
>
>heh. well that would presume i am declaring IDM "dead"...and no one
with
quoted 4 lines half a brain would
>half a brain would
>touch that thread with a 12k pole.
>
>personally, i love electronic music, i love music that uses a minimum
of
quoted 2 lines electronics
>electronics
>(basically the recording equipment), i love music that mixes and
matches
quoted 6 lines whatever. i admit i
>whatever. i admit i
>am a bit "over" the "standard" IDM "sound" as practiced by certain
>descendants of the biggest
>bands on warp. but the best stuff stays listenable, and new things
>constantly recreate from
>the old by breaking the rules and remaking their own. if IDM is simply
one
quoted 2 lines of many catch-all
>of many catch-all
>terms to define an ever-morphing type of electronic music, rather than
a
quoted 2 lines single genre
>single genre
>existing during a fixed period of time, then theoretically it will
never
quoted 9 lines "die".
>"die".
>
>
>d.
>
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