On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Ashok Divakaran 39191 wrote:
Ashok - I'm having some problems with your mails. You seem to use
attachments and they're pretty hard to reply to (I have to save out the
attachment and then re-import it back in). Maybe it's just my mailer...
quoted 3 lines I have to quibble on this definition of "intelligent"--i.e., that anything
>I have to quibble on this definition of "intelligent"--i.e., that anything
>that strikes a listener as "innovative" is "intelligent". What we find
>innovative depends on our musical backgrounds,
But we're all aware (I hope) of innovation within the techno/IDM sphere of
things...
quoted 5 lines Personally, I grew up on technopop and then industrial music. Hence I
>Personally, I grew up on technopop and then industrial music. Hence I
>find "Ventolin", the Basic Channel comp., and "Landcruising"
>unspeakably boring
>--similar things have been done years ago by people in a totally different
>"scene". However, others find these "innovative". Who's right?
You might find them boring Ashok - that's slightly different to being
innovative. I don't much like Phillip Glass and the minimal classical
output - I find it boring too - but I *do* think that it's innovative and
for that reason, it deserves some respect.
quoted 3 lines I'm also a bit fed up with the notion that anything that's a) quite
>I'm also a bit fed up with the notion that anything that's a) quite
>clearly danceable and b) has melody and harmony is automatically
>barred from membership in the IDM club.
You're generalising - I've *never* said that music for the floor wasn't
intelligent. If music is going to make me move, it's got to give me something
different - thats what I mean by innovation. Otherwise, it's mindless and
lazy and, I've said it before, unforgivable in electronic music. Pretty
much all the standout dance classics are tracks that have done something
new, something innovative that made people think "what's this?" (_Strings
of Life_, _LFO_, _Digeridoo_, _Voodoo Ray_, _Spastik_, _De-Orbit_, _Choke
& Fly_...). IDM and dance music in general has to keep moving on, otherwise
it stagnates. Agree? IMO, Goa doesn't do this.
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