IDM Mailing Archive

Here comes a rant, you dirty little men... Upaka@aol.com wrote:

quoted 6 lines Nowhere. It isn't available anywhere for purchase. I can understand giving

> Nowhere. It isn't available anywhere for purchase. I can understand giving > 'props' to the local boy, but it seems rather odd when the local boy has no > records. Why don't you wait until the Orange release comes out? The only thing > the rest of us (ie: the world outside the tiny geographical region where > lexanculpt resides and the vast majority of list members do not) can hear of > lexanculpt are tiny sound samples on his webpage.

Southern California is a 'tiny geographical region'? Are you fucking high? And although the 'majority' of the list does not live here, there are QUITE a few members who do and even more who live in outlying areas and drive hours to support the local IDM scene. If you think back, once upon a time, every artist was a 'local boy', including the almighty god of IDM, Richard D. James. You snobby little shitburgers should all be happy that you're hearing about this one before everyone else. And if you don't care, it's your 'right', plus it means more music for the people who do.

quoted 2 lines I won't mind talking about lexanculpt once I've actually heard his music, but

> I won't mind talking about lexanculpt once I've actually heard his music, but > until then it's pointless.

Fine, then don't. That's what you should do when you don't know what your talking about. But I do and I'm more then happy to talk. Alex is extremely talented and his music gets better with every new song he writes. Thanks to friend and fellow list asshole Fresh, I've known alex for quite some time and have followed the progression of his music and live shows. And even more important to me is that fact that he's a great person and a very good friend. So when I hear people slaging him off because they don't know any better, it kind of upsets me.

quoted 3 lines I suppose it was bound to happen eventually on this

> I suppose it was bound to happen eventually on this > list though. We've reached the peak of undergroundness: "My favorite artist is > sooo underground that he doesn't even have any records that you can get."

Yeah, this guy is so damn underground that I've seen him play live last year more times that every other live electronic act in LA put together. Gigs in Coffee Houses, Theaters, Restaurants, Raves, Radio, etc., are completely underground, right? Oh, and how did he possibly win the IDM single of the year award? With the amount of CDR's he's passed out in the last year, I'm actually surprised how little talk there has been here about his music.

quoted 4 lines What's next? Releasing records only in wax cylinder format? "Man, those flat

> What's next? Releasing records only in wax cylinder format? "Man, those flat > records are so mainstream." What, do you mean you don't have a player for wax > cylinder? There's just no excuse for that, you can pick one up in an antique > store for next to nothing.

There are tons of great records and artists that I know I'll never hear, but I don't whine about it. People who do just piss me off. MAS, MASK, MARKANT, VVM, SKAM, WARP, SCHEMATIC, etc all have records that didn't pass through my neck of the woods and that's ok. But don't ever say that because it's rare and you've never seen it, it doesn't exist, or deny people the right to talk about it because it's out of the realm of your experience. That's just fucking wack. We all bring different things to this list, it is your job to decide which of these things are for you, and which aren't. Please: Don't believe the hype, make up your own damn mind. word to the mothership, brock