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Alright. I like Confield a lot, but to say it is very rich "harmonically" I think is a bit misleading and I have a hunch that even on whatever level it could be considered "harmonically rich", it is not the way in which the original poster was seeking. I would personally consider it more texturally rich. The original poster (sorry I deleted the original email) was looking for something outside the loopiness of most IDM. While I agree that there is a lot of developement going on in the Confield tracks, its still very loopy (evin if the loops are kinda constantly mutating). And in terms of developing melodics (which is what I thought was what the original poster was looking for), I don't think the basslines and occasional melodies in Confield really jump too far from where they start at the beginning of most tracks. All that aside, I like Confield a lot and you should get it anyway. As for IDM sort of stuff that is melodic and dynamic and all that... nothing really jumps out at me right off. Squarepusher's Hard Normal Daddy is very musical and the songs really go places. This might not be what you are looking for but I have this Orchester 33 1/3 CD (a Christian Fennesz project) that has a lot of IDM elements fused with a whole bunch of live jazz musicians and I think there are some great songs on there. Umm... sorry.. I'm at work and I don't have my stuff in front of me so that's all I've got for now. -Aaron

quoted 6 lines Yep. But most people don't really like it. Look at Autechre's

> > Yep. But most people don't really like it. Look at Autechre's > "Confield" > cd. I find it very rich harmonically, and extremely diverse > within each > song, but most people dismissed it as crap.

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On 01/10/01 13:53, Aaron D Meyers said in living color:

quoted 13 lines Alright. I like Confield a lot, but to say it is very

> Alright. I like Confield a lot, but to say it is very > rich "harmonically" I think is a bit misleading and I have a hunch that > even on whatever level it could be considered "harmonically rich", it > is not the way in which the original poster was seeking. I would > personally consider it more texturally rich. The original poster > (sorry I deleted the original email) was looking for something outside > the loopiness of most IDM. While I agree that there is a lot of > developement going on in the Confield tracks, its still very loopy > (evin if the loops are kinda constantly mutating). And in terms of > developing melodics (which is what I thought was what the original > poster was looking for), I don't think the basslines and occasional > melodies in Confield really jump too far from where they start at the > beginning of most tracks.

Indeed, Confield does not really fit the criteria I identified in my original message.

quoted 1 line All that aside, I like Confield a lot and you should get it anyway.

> All that aside, I like Confield a lot and you should get it anyway.

I like it a lot too anyway... :)

quoted 8 lines As for IDM sort of stuff that is melodic and dynamic and all that...

> As for IDM sort of stuff that is melodic and dynamic and all that... > nothing really jumps out at me right off. Squarepusher's Hard Normal > Daddy is very musical and the songs really go places. This might not > be what you are looking for but I have this Orchester 33 1/3 CD (a > Christian Fennesz project) that has a lot of IDM elements fused with a > whole bunch of live jazz musicians and I think there are some great > songs on there. Umm... sorry.. I'm at work and I don't have my stuff > in front of me so that's all I've got for now.

Hard Normal Daddy would fit the bill, even though it can be a bit borderline in some cases. The Orchester 33 1/3 thing sounds interesting... I'll have to check it out. g. -- Guillaume Grenier - gollum@videotron.ca in space there is no north in space there is no south in space there is no east in space there is no west --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org