IDM Mailing Archive

To: owner-idm@hyperreal.com From: "Kent Williams" <cadsi.com!kent@elvis.cadsi.com>

quoted 2 lines I'm really amazed at the response from people just because I wrote that I

> I'm really amazed at the response from people just because I wrote that I > bought TEEX 3 and the Portishead album. I thought that Portishead would not

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quoted 2 lines strictly IDM because they are an outfit whose sound is not so definitely

> strictly IDM because they are an outfit whose sound is not so definitely > electronic as, for example, the Aphex Twin's sound is.

I still think my favorite IDM record of all time is "Sweetnighter" by Weather Report, which came out in 1974. Real drums & a hairy South American percussionist playing all those funny things they make out of gourds and leaf springs down there ... most of the keyboards are Fender Rhodes played through a wah-wah pedal! The best part of what passes for IDM is the synthesis it implies: music made at the crossroads of tribalism and technology, gay and straight, black & white, etc. Hell, there are some Public Enemy tracks that you could drop in the mix with Jungle & deep Detroit without missing a beat! Maybe it's ridiculous to preach this on a mailing list dedicated to a "genre" but it's always important to keep your ears open. My next mix will also feature Jim Nabors singing "Windmills of your Mind" with a new spindle hole drilled off center ... -- Kent Williams -- kent@gilligan.cadsi.com Look in the mail header for all sorts of vital information about me. .. this must be what it's like to be a COLLEGE GRADUATE!!