I pretty much totally agree with this.
Maybe I'm seeing the past through rose tinted spectacles, but part of what appealed about the IDM list when I originally joined it a decade or so ago was that the music up for discussion wasn't a restricted thing, it was more about any sort of forward thinking electronic music that made sense for home listening as well as (or instead of) for dancing. Sure there was lots of Warp / Skam / Musik Aus Strom / Schematic stuff discussed, but also everyone from Jeff Mills to Spring Heeled Jack to Basic Channel to El-P to The Orb.
So yeah, it seems kind of weird and a bit sad that the list is mostly stuck talking about one particular strand of nineties electronic music rather than discussing, embracing, arguing about, comparing or getting bored with any of the range of newer stuff that's out there.
(By the by, for more dubstep that might appeal to IDM fans, the Geiom album is well worth a look. Melodies and bleeps meet bass and atmospherics, quite chilled, very nice. And the Subtle Audio compilation is worth checking on the leftfield dnb front. DJ support from Richard D James, can't be bad...)
d.
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From: thorsten@highpointlowlife.com [mailto:thorsten@highpointlowlife.com]
Sent: Tue 08/07/2008 18:28
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] new stuff
i have to admit, i totally don't understand why people still cling to this idea
of autechre/aphex/squarepusher/BoC era IDM.
Sure, nostalgia is nice, we all have lots of good memories, but it seems kinda
the anithesis of IDM which i was always interested in because it was pushing the
boundaries of electronic music, doing something new and different, new textures,
rhythms, structures. Well most of those releases are all like 14 years old now,
and i feel its kinda dadtronica now.
why aren't we talking about all the new exciting electronic music being produced
these days? Theres a lot of different strands, from dubstep to the instrumental
electronic hip hop stuff, 8bit, noise beats, 2step. It may not be IDM, but i
think the idea behind them all is pretty much the same as people doing IDM in
that early ninties era - pushing things out, trying new things.
at a glance through my music library, i would pick out stuff like:
herrmutt lobby
joker
martyn
samiyam
flying lotus
rustie
2562 / a made up sound
appleblim
peverlist
benga
kaman leung
ras g
disrupt
ikonika
cloaks
moving ninja
darkstar
redshape
efdemin
murmur
ramadanman
scuba (i don't actually much like this album but its quite idm)
strategy
T++
trg
zomby
thoughts?
(I know i've missed out a bunch of good stuff here, but i'm on my work machine
which has only a subset of my music collection.)
*ducks head for incoming flames*
thor
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