Well.. I've been kinda weirded out by the internet and crowds of people in
general for the last few years... occasionally tried to revisit the magic of
97-2000-era IDM-l on a couple of web boards, but I kept getting flamed for
using too many sentences in my posts. Then I stumbled on the "We Are The
Music Makers" bulletin board on-line and got a little taste of what I had
missed--- it's a sweet community there, extremely friendly by modern
web-community standards, nerding out on sweet beats. But I dunno, for
whatever reason I just feel like email lists feel a little more personal,
more like a secret meeting of wizards and less like the web-bb vibe of a
bunch of kids hanging out in the Denny's parking lot or whatever.
And more than that, the state of music just feels so similar to how it was
in the mid-90s when I first got into IDM, when there was so much
samey-sounding rock and rap that all seemed way more concerned with speaking
to huge amorphous crowds of people with disposable income and not so
interested in speaking to an intelligent, modern individual. Plus, it seems
like the paragons of IDM are turning out some of the most exciting tracks of
their careers (Ie: Aphex, Ae, Vladislav, Pan sonic, Matmos, Hrvatski)...
I've been agitating in the Baltimore music scene for more IDM awareness, and
it seems to be going surprisingly well. I was asked by a group of kids from
the art school to lecture about techno at the Contemporary Arts Museum, and
I did a 90-minute long talk about discovering Skam, MAS, Phthalo,
Raster-Noton, Mego, etc., in the pre-Myspace/Pitchfork days and shockingly
(to me, at least), something like 40-50 people came and most of them seemed
to get something out of it. The noise, indie rock, and trendy dance (MIA
and mash-ups and 8bit remixes and whatnot) scenes seem to be exploding with
new bands who are incorporating elements of electronic music into their
sets, but who somehow (usually because they're just young) completely missed
the IDM explosion of the mid-late 90s, and as a result don't really have
much respect for electronic music. On the other hand, there are some deeply
knowledgable dudes in town, as well-- like Jason Urick, who was an OG
IDM-lister and co-ran the Once.Twice festival which brought a ton of sweet
glitchmasters to my town a few years back. His band, Wzt Hearts, is a
Pita-meets-the-Boredoms laptop/guitar/drums/table quartet that's already put
out two pretty stellar records.
Anyway, I'll be writing up all the IDM-related events in Baltimore like some
kind of futuristic Lance McGannon.
-rk
On Dec 3, 2007 8:34 PM, Shimone @ StaticBeats <shimone@staticbeats.com>
wrote:
quoted 91 lines Well shit man. Only 2 years later you surface:
> Well shit man. Only 2 years later you surface:
> http://elists.resynthesize.com/idm/2004/11/1282918/
>
> What's the good word?
>
> Shimone @ StaticBeats
>
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2007 4:48 PM, Kiya Babzani <denial@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iamacopier&btnG=Search
> > :)
> >
> > -kiya
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com>
> > >Sent: Dec 3, 2007 4:44 PM
> > >To: Kiya Babzani <denial@ix.netcom.com >
> > >Subject: Re: [idm] Soft Pink Truth
> > >
> > >because I am *copying y**ou* by using it in my sig... get it??
> > >
> > >-cexman
> > >
> > >
> > >On Dec 3, 2007 7:42 PM, Kiya Babzani < denial@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wait, why does it say "i am a copier" in your sig?
> > >>
> > >> -kiya
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> >From: Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com>
> > >> >Sent: Dec 3, 2007 3:48 PM
> > >> >To: idm@hyperreal.org
> > >> >Subject: [idm] Soft Pink Truth
> > >> >
> > >> >Saturday night, Drew Daniel's solo project Soft Pink Truth played a
> > >> >warehouse space in Baltimore and oh my god, twas incredible.
> > >> >
> > >> >There were some worries that the soundsystem was buckling under the
> > >> noisy,
> > >> >noisy beats of opener Food For Animals (rap group with absolutely
> > evil
> > >> >production... even harsher than Dalek, closer to MAKING ORANGE
> > THINGS,
> > >> >actually...)
> > >> >one of the speaker stacks was lighting up from within and all
> > that...
> > >> >
> > >> >but Drew rolled over the crowd like a bulldozer with non-stop thump.
> > I
> > >> >personally haven't really danced in probably two years, I mostly
> > just
> > >> >people-watch and gossip and shit, but SPT's set was just too damn
> > funky.
> > >> I
> > >> >got my head-bob on something fierce.
> > >> >
> > >> >And the best part is, homeboy LIVES in Baltimore now, so next Sunday
> > I'm
> > >> >going to see Matmos in a 50-capacity room that's like 5-minutes from
> > my
> > >> >front door (by bike!)
> > >> >
> > >> >I will give a more detailed report of this show to the list, I have
> > a
> > >> >feeling it's going to be historic. Did anyone ever see them with
> > Bjork
> > >> on
> > >> >Letterman that one time? Holy shit, IDM owned network television
> > harder
> > >> >than any other band since Prince pwned Dick Clark on American
> > Bandstand.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >-freshwell
> > >> >"i am a copier"
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
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