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Chispas De Muerte
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Date:
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:03:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject:
[idm] AE draft 7.30 promo
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Yeah it would be great to know who made those tracks. Definitley better than all of the other hoax MP3's that are floating around, and in my opinion the last few Autechre releases. What confuses me is someone posted a review of a promo tape he recieved a few days ago, with the same tracklisting and pretty similar descriptions of the music contained therein. Who knows maybe if this person were going to the trouble of mailing out a bunch of friggin cassette tapes they might be wise to withhold thier name in case of any legal backlash from Warp or Autechre for that matter. Something about intellectual property or something. Copyright laws? I think there are two different types of IDM listeners. One group listens to IDM in a more technical sense, listening for new sequencing/synthesis techniques and music that pushes the boundaries of electronic programming capabilites, whether or not the results are neccesarily coherent or cohesive. The other type listens to IDM as pure asthetic gratification, caring less about the process than the ability of a track to infect ones auditory senses in a pleasurable way. (This is of course all subjective, which I guess creates another group, or a mixture of the two. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder). My point bieng that since possibley ep7 or lp5 AE has been releasing material entirely appealing to the first group, leaving a lot of people in the second group pretty dissapointed. It would be nice to hear something from them that took a little more direction, and didn't SOUND like computers spewing out a bunch of randomized parameters, time signatures and harmonics. I mean if they could get all crazy experimental and have it sound good, that I would be happy with, and actually would probabley give them more artistic props. ep7 is a good example of that, as well as the second peel session and a lot of thier remix work. Well thier track on the pool party mix doesn't sound too promising as far as my tastes go, but from what I gathered from an interview I read about them in xlr8r a year or so ago, these days they really aren't all that interested in the listeners opinion anyway. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org