me and my indie rocker musician friends only started to get into
electronic music _at all_ when aphex twin, squarepusher, dj shadow,
orbital, autechre, boards of canada etc... came out... Before that the
only decent electronic music, in our opinions, was stuff like kraftwerk
etc... Basically, IDM or whatever you want to call it was the first
music of the electronic sort that wasn't repetitively boring and
retarded... You could tell in listening to it that the artists were
truly artists, and had labored with genius level of originality over
each and every sound in the music. ALso, you could tell that they tried
to infuse their emotions into the music as well.
Lately, on both of these fronts, electronic artists have not been up to
the task so it seems, and are back to their old standby of drug-induced
knob twisting wankery... Oh well... I will wait until the next amazing
album comes out of whatever genre it comes from and listen to it as
always...
peace out...
P.S. the name "IDM" sucks really bad and I refrain from using it around
my friends... We say "experimental electronic".
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