quoted 10 lines Andrei wrote (during the debate with Will Samuels)
>Andrei wrote (during the debate with Will Samuels)
>>>I think besides Autechre he's basically the only one doing anything new in
>IDM and a lot of people seem to hate them for that. (Please keep the
>flames to a minimum.) >>>
>
>
>puh-lease Afx, Ae doing anything *NEW* ?????
>
>they have never changed their formula
>since the Artificial Intelligence days. Please buy some new records
oh, you kids and your radical viewpoints. i feel like the idm list
has dissipated to 'who can have the most offensive opinion' followed
by a pretense of deterring flames. afx/ae are certainly NOT the only
people doing anything new in idm (for christ's sakes, pole, boc, feq
have all put out things in the last two years that changed the way i
listen to music), NOR have they 'never changed their formula'. to
dip into another argument, 'windowlicker' is an excellent track, very
ornate and quirky and yet funky, demonstrating that mr. james'
mastery of timbres has never been greater. and ae is not quite just
the 'same old', and i'm sure that you recognize this, despite your
sensationalist concept of music today.
in any case, as the genre is growing more firmly established, it must
begin to grow *inward*, rather than *outward*. that is to say,
nobody is shocked by such-and-such bpm or such amount of noise
anymore ; the only place to go is towards more precise control over
the textures of sounds, more variation in the beats (idm has always
been good about this one), more thought towards song structure, and
so forth. i know the inner simon reynolds in us will say, 'to hell
with musicianship i want shit to be CRAZY' but that can only go so
far, really.
well. i hope some of you recognize my name--i'm back after seven
months off the list, and am glad to see that nothing has changed ;
we're still bickering about the genius of aphex and what constitutes
'selling out', as it relates to aphex, why dance music is inherently
inferior to more mature forms of music, and perhaps autechre, and,
oh, the rest of the genre here and there, but mostly to what extent
they are influenced by aphex. jolly good !
.af.
ps; i make moooooooosic
http://www.zenda.com/af/music.html
pps; look out for a radioshow this january called
'electroacousticadillacmusic', if all goes well.
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