Greg Baker wrote:
quoted 5 lines I don't see no connection between having fun and making this kind of music.>I don't see no connection between having fun and making this kind of music.
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>what?!?! i think part of the reason why IDM is such a bedroom-producer phenomenon is that nothing could be better than waking up in the morning, frying up some eggs (a la jenkinson in the film modulations), smoking a fat spliff, and taking out everything on your sequencer. it may not be fun for everyone and the whole family, but neither is IDM as a whole. when i show all my computer software to my friends who know nothing about IDM or the making of it, they want to play around with it for hours. it's just intrinsically fun to sit around and play with stuff on a screen that makes weird noises. to a beat.
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ok you've got a point there, but wouldn't you agree if I say that its
kind of a definitionproblem of what is fun. I see what you mean, but i
think that people are serious. Just imagine most IDM-Liveacts. They
don't seem to have the aim to make people happy or have fun theirselves.
(I know there are exeptions like maybe Cex) And hard to confess this,
I've never been on an IDM-event where people were having fun, enjoing
theirselves. Everybody's standing around, looking at the guy with the
Laptop or having their eyes closed, being in a world far away from
present and reality. That is fun too, but its more a kind of
solitairefun. Like "Me enjoing myself". That might be the same fun
people are having building their sounds alone in their ministudio,
experimenting with every stuff available, smoking spliffs, well thats
what at least happens to me.
But maybe this is also a question of nationality. It may sound strange
but perhaps its a german phenomena (as I am based there). For what I
hear from friends which went to IDM-parties in the States I feel like
the right thing is going on there and we here are just a bunch of nerds
which do not know how to dance to this music. Even when I went to Berlin
to see Autechre, people were standing around, perhaps moving one food or
nodding their head, but I didn't see no real party going on there.
SokelA
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