On the question of Wire being a much-covered band, I have a CD called
'Whore' (given away by The Wire magazine years ago) that assembles a whole
shedload of various artists covering Wire songs.
On the issue of whether Wire have anything to do with the Sub-genre
Latterly Known As 'IDM', consider this extract from a pop matters piece:
"Wire's flirtations with a nascent techno sound and its attendant beats
burgeoned into a fully declared romance fashioned from synths and
sequencers on Manscape (1990). However, Manscape stands as somewhat of a
nadir in the Wire corpus -- Colin Newman himself describing it as a "really
good record," albeit "badly recorded [and] really badly mixed." Much of the
band's creative edge is blunted in this arguably overproduced affair that
sees the embrace of newer technology yielding for the most part
unremarkable, although vaguely danceable results."
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/w/wire-reissues.shtml>
Personally, I used to get off on jerking limbs (usually my own) not too
stupidly to 'Eardrum Buzz'.
alan
--On 27 September 2005 11:55 +0000 dj fishead <fishead666@hotmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 33 lines On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:45:40AM +0000, dj fishead wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:45:40AM +0000, dj fishead wrote:
>> > Investigate the likes of Arthur Brown, Delia Derbyshire, Neu, early
>> Portion
>> > Control, Wire...
>>
>> Interesting one, this. I love Wire - probably my favourite band - but
>> I've never thought of them as being very IDM. I suppose you could make a
>> case for some of the late-80s/early-90s stuff, or the sonic experiments
>> around the time of 154.
>>
>> Maybe I should play You Hung Your Lights In The Trees/A Craftsman's Touch
>> out in my DJ set this weekend.
>
> 154 is a pretty phenomenal record - and the number of artists that have
> covered the band (Big Black, Fischerspooner, Dabrye, Mike Watt and Lush -
> who did a great version of Outdoor Miner as a b-side)... It's not
> quote-unquote idm - but their songwriting was pretty damn influential -
> and various member did move in substantially more electronic directions
> with their solo work.
>
> There are a ridiculous number of non-idm works that have had a
> substantial influence on this whole fandangled idm thing - and I guess my
> point is that it's rather near-sighted to cite someone directly involved
> with the whole movement (even though he seems to be more fond of calling
> it braindance) as the godfather of it all... especially when he's a bit
> of johnny come-lately alongside someone like Stockhausen.
>
>
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