Peter
This brings up an interesting point that I've been considering for a while
now regarding Boards of Canada.
I've been slowly losing interest in IDM over the past 12-18 months and I
attribute this to a few things...
1) tastes simply change
2) the glut of new IDM artists flooded the genre...making it harder to find
the good stuff
3) Boards of Canada
There are some ways that I think of IDM as a subgenre of Autechre and Aphex.
Of course, this is marginalizing the contributions of a lot of key people
(global communication, plaid, sqpshr, u-ziq, warp, rephlex, ninjatune, etc),
but for me, a lot of IDM seems to be a reaction to these original artists,
in particular autechre...albeit two or three years late. If you look at what
happened a few years ago with the 'autechre clones', you see exactly what
I'm saying. Last year was a bit of a return to the warmer, more melodic sort
of IDM that autechre was doing with their first two albums. Aspen, lily of
the valley, crunch (okay, released this year, but it's older material,
right?), etc. Music (and genres) cycle through layers of change, but it's
interesting to me how much of this change is influenced by autechre.
This is obviously a product of my own tastes because, honestly, I never
latched on to drill'n'bass, glitch, or clicks. These styles have birthed
subgenres, yes, but not that I've pursued.
But what's the point? Boards of Canada. Autechre is brilliant, but too
cereberal for a lot of folks. The rhythms are complex and the time
signatures shift frequently as far as I can tell. It's amazing what Sean and
Rob can do with a PC and a ton of imagination.
What Autechre does for my head, boards of canada does for the inside of my
eyelids. I swear there's something subconscious going on in this music...a
layer I'm not hearing. The melodies are clear and beautiful in a simple,
schoolyard sort of way. It's complex material and I don't mean to say it's
simple and easy to do; quite the contrary...but Boards of Canada makes me
feel six years old again. Six years old and full of joy again.
BoC have created sound that transcends what I've come to know as IDM.
Consequently, most other IDM leaves me cold these days. I find myself
searching for that missing connection and where it usually leads is to some
hybrid electronic band (air, bent, sigur ros, bjork, etc.) Cerebral with
soul.
As a caveat to this, I've been loving arovane lately in a similar way.
Intensely beautiful in a way I've not heard in a while. There are other
selected tracks that really do it for me, but they're few and far between
(the schikowski track from the cashier escape route comp, a bit of marumari,
a styrofoam track or two and a few others).
BoC have changed the way I listen to music in the same way that Autechre did
about 9-10 years ago. Period.
.Brian
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From: Peter Schrock [mailto:pachinko74@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 2:35 AM
To: anyone and everyone and
Subject: [idm] Looking for? RE:I'm over idm
I am just curious to know what everyone is looking for. I mean, some of
Speedy J's stuff I would consider IDM, I don't know, I like all of that, but
what is everyone looking for?
on 5/5/01 1:49 PM, brian albers at brianalbers@hotmail.com wrote:
quoted 4 lines I'm pretty much over IDM-style IDM. IDM has solidified into a genre with
>
>
>> I'm pretty much over IDM-style IDM. IDM has solidified into a genre with
>> its own melodic & rhythmic conventions, less of it moves me much. There
are
quoted 18 lines of course ample exceptions to even this, as I'm still thrilled by Ae,
>> of course ample exceptions to even this, as I'm still thrilled by Ae,
>> almost everything on Chocolate Industries, plenty of Schematic, etc., but
>> there seems to be more and more generic material out there. And I'm not
>> even saying that it's *bad*, merely that that particular genre isn't
>> terribly interesting to me.
>
> I must echo these sentiments. I'm the one who pointed out the growing
> homoginazation of sound with artists like Quench, Crunch, Gimmik and Swap.
> Now I'm seeing it more and more coming out of the Schematic camp, with
> Richard Devine and Otto Von Schirach heading the charge. Nothing on the
> House of Distaction comp moves me all that much, although it gets my vote
> for most impressive artwork of the year.
>>
>> Really, the most exciting stuff for me lately has been break-beat driven,
>> and all that "broken beat" stuff
>
> I find myself puuting on more techno and break-beat like Surgeon,
> Underworld, Meat Beat Manifesto, Speedy J. Hell, I might even be more apt
to
quoted 10 lines throw on some old Frontline Assembly album than the new Phoenecia.
> throw on some old Frontline Assembly album than the new Phoenecia.
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