quoted 6 lines Tamara Palmer wrote:>Tamara Palmer wrote:
>> Don't forget the current fascination with Killing Joke. :)
>
>That reminds me -- is any of Killing Joke's other stuff as good as "Pandemonium
>in Dub"? I remember an IDM-er rated it as the most desirable of 3 recent
>releases including plain-ol' "Pandemonium" and maybe (?) "Millennium".
That was me. None of the other stuff is IDM-oriented. Stick with "... In Dub"
if that's what you're interested in. Reports I've seen in other areas of
Cyberspace seem to indicate that the album is pretty much "traditional" Killing
Joke territory; i.e., the Youth mixes that bring in the Dub/Techno elements are
all confined to the 12"/CDS singles. *Sigh*
quoted 2 lines I also remember that Metallica covered one of their older songs, so I'll make>I also remember that Metallica covered one of their older songs, so I'll make
>sure to stick with newer material :)
Well, that more-or-less takes it outside the realm of IDM as we now define the
term, but as far as I'm concerned every KJ album save for "Brighter Than A
Thousand Suns" and "Outside The Gate" is absolutely essential.
Since Tamara's response above was in response to Ian's metaphysical question
quoted 2 lines Who else will the IDM crowd remix as tribute? ... Sex Pistols? ... The Clash?> Who else will the IDM crowd remix as tribute? ... Sex Pistols? ... The Clash?
> ... Elvis? :-)
The Sex Pistols reference is nearly close to home, because John Lydon's best
pal during the Pistols era was Jah Wobble, later in PiL of course. And the
track that most blew my socks off last weekend at Joe Rice's excellent forest
rave here in L.A. - courtesy of Tamara (thanks Tam! (-: ) - was the Kris Needs
15 minute B-side remix of one of Wobble's most recent singles (what was that,
Tam - "Getting Closer to God" or somesuch ... ?). A tour-de-force that spans
Meat Beat-esque hardcore low-end funky rhythms all the way to a brain-bleeding
Acid workout (it goes so far across the spectrum that everyone was convinced
she'd played 2 different tracks!), it had plenty of I and more than enough D to
suit me.
Which leads me to my last comment; if you think the "D" has died in "IDM",
maybe it's time to expand your definition of "IDM". "People who have appeared
on AI 1 or AI 2, and any inbred bastard offspring thereof" is getting to be a
wee bit limiting if you ask me ...
- Greg