IDM Mailing Archive

Hey all. Got two things up for grabs... BOYMERANG - latest 12" on Prototype (sorry, can't remember the title) Picked this up based on liking the Leaf single, but I just don't dig it. Only played once. I'd like to get $10 ppd for it, but might haggle a bit. Try me. UNIVERSAL INDICATOR GREEN on Rephlex Yeah, the 7"/10"/12" pack in a Rephlex shopping bag sleeve. Fairly standard Rephlexian U.I. mayhem. I dunno exactly who did what... I've heard that RDJ was involved somehow, but y'know how those rumours spread. Anyway, I think I'll do this one as an auction. Buyer pays shipping, blah blah blah. Send yer bids to stained@interlog.com - closes on Sunday, the 11th. Now, some assorted IDMish comments: Got a promo copy of the Bowie album last week, and y'know, it's not bad. Sure, if you're expecting something totally groundbreaking , etc., you ain't getting it here. But taken as a David Bowie album with d'n'b/techno elements added to the mix, it's quite listenable. Which is something I haven't been able to say about a David Bowie album in, oh, 15 years or so. :-) Gotta wonder, though, why the fuck they had the remixes for "Little Wonder" (prolly the most junglefied track on the disc) done by Junior Vasquez... like, hello? Why not Photek (they're on the same label!) or Sqpshr or even fucking Bukem? I don' unnerstan.

quoted 8 lines From: "Gonzi (Fresh)" <fresh@linkonline.net>

> From: "Gonzi (Fresh)" <fresh@linkonline.net> > > "'Refried Food' DJ Food (NinjaTune) > Amazing insturmental hip-hop. Trippy, with cool samples. No one's really > heard of it, and it's my favorite album of last year. I think DJ Food > and Coldcut work together." > > Ya think? Fucking idgit...

Ah, would ya give the "more IDM than thou" attitude a rest, Gonzi? Just cause some casual fan doesn't happen to know that DJ Food and Coldcut are almost one & the same, it doesn't mean that they're a fucking idiot. Yeah, we might be a bunch of sad spotters, but that doesn't mean that everyone listening to this music is. -----

quoted 3 lines I'm sure many people on this list are well-known, at their workplace or lab or

> I'm sure many people on this list are well-known, at their workplace or lab or > home or among friends, as the Person Who Listens To Weird Music. Or the Person > Who Blows All Her/His Earnings On $25 Import CDs. ;)

(raises hand) Over here! Yup, that's right on the money. Although in my case, people have a hard time figuring out why one minute, they might walk by and find me listening to some electro-phunk thing, and the next, listening to some lounge/EZ listening. Keep 'em on their toes, that what I always say... :-)

quoted 1 line On now:: erm, Lush

> On now:: erm, Lush

On now: "Ultra-Lounge: Organs In Orbit" -----

quoted 5 lines From: Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>

> From: Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com> > > funny how just a year back people were falling over themselves saying how > wonderful the chems were. now they've got a bit of popularity and it's all > "they're so commercial, i always hated them."

Fuck that action, I still dig 'em. "Setting Sun" is a great pop record. -----

quoted 8 lines From: Peter Hagopian <hagopian@n2k.com>

> From: Peter Hagopian <hagopian@n2k.com> > > > OUR CHILDREN ARE "RAVING" - And What We Can Do About It > > ABC's 20/20 program did an "expose" on that very story two or three > weeks ago... It's amazing to hear parents blame "rave culture" for the > OD deaths of their kids. I'm sympathetic to their terrible loss, but > shutting down raves isn't going to help.

These are the same type of people who were blaming heavy metal bands for their kids drinking, smoking dope and committing suicide back in the 80's. The type of parents who need a scapegoat to cover up the fact that they didn't raise their kids properly themselves. These sort of people will *always* exoist in one form or another. Just have to deal. Greg