At 4:08 PM 2/23/94 +0000, G R Burton wrote:
quoted 13 lines I like both tooo.. But I didn't know that liking SunRa and IDM were so>> I like both tooo.. But I didn't know that liking SunRa and IDM were so
>> very much mutually exclusive things...
>
> Well indeed they're not..
> Both are space/sci-fi obsessed as a rule, often
>derive their potency from the mesmerizing effect of continual repetion of
>slowly changing patterns (cf Steve Reich), and rarely impinge themselves
>on the mainstream press. Differences being, of course, a somewhat variant
>BPM, and generally mutually exclusive audiences who don't know what their
>missing. Does anyone know a record shop where you'd find `The Heliocentric
>Worlds of Sun Ra' next to `777' and all those wonderful Suns of Arqa records
>(which are definitely IDM to me)?
> Geoff X.
They are a little closer than one would expect. Sun Ra speaks on
the first track on the Grid's 456. I pretty cool track, especially
if you are into kind of a jazzy housey sound.
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