quoted 8 lines Last month i finally moved away from using pine for email and now>>Last month i finally moved away from using pine for email and now
>>using Thunderbird, so i have filters setup for the IDM list, and
>>its only then i really started seeing how little the ratio of music
>>discussion to promotion there is here. Be good to get some good
>>recommendations from people and just general discussions about good
>>electronic music going on. In fact, i dont care if its about
>>electronic music, i find it quite interesting to see what everyone
>>else listens to besides idm.
hmmm, depends on what you mean by "promotion"...ebay lists aside, i
think everything here is fairly relevant. even people posting about
IDM-related shows, whether they are putting them on or not, is
helpful. the only thing i'd like to see is the city or state
represented in the subject line for those. you know, so i don't get
all excited for something that's happening in california or canada.
as for listening: i just got the final coil album 'the ape of
naples', which i didn't even know was out until someone passed me a
dvd of downloaded stuff and that was included. there was so much
great stuff unreleased from this band, it's a shame. hopefully some
kind of archives series will be initiated by peter christopherson at
some point. i will definitely get 'black antlers' if and when it
comes out on official CD (it was a CDR-EP direct from them for
awhile, with promises of a full-length, but is now only for sale as
downloads from the coil site).
as for the new album, it's a damn shame john balance had to die
before his group could release what is possibly the quintessential
coil album, containing elements of their musical styles from the most
recent all the way back to just after 1986's 'horse rotorvator'. it
stands with that and 'scatology' as a classic melodic/vocal album of
theirs, for those who have been clamoring for years for them to do
another "proper album" instead of side projects, singles, drone and
noise toss-offs; it may even ultimately prove to be better than
those. upon first listen it already blows away both volumes of
'musick to play in the dark', which was hailed as a return to form in
the late 90s.
i've also been loving plastikman's 'consumed', particularly for
nighttime travel (sharing that category with monolake's
'cinemascope', deadbeat's 'primordia', theorem's 'ion', and
senking's 'tap'). i'm also still on my tresor kick, the latest
killer for me being 'tresor never sleeps'. also over in berlin, the
latest ellen allien 'thrills' led me to pick up 'stadtkind', which is
comparatively thinner-sounding but also quite good. aphex still gets
a decent amout of spins, from ambient to caustic.
non-idm stuff of late would be nurse with wound, the dead science,
xiu xiu, and old (pre-nettwerk/vocals) delerium. some recently
played that i haven't hearde in awhile have been the the's 'mind
bomb' and the beatles' white album.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to relax with a spin of 'spiral insana'.
d.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org