On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:53:04AM -0400, chthonic streams wrote:
quoted 9 lines I was one of them, I didn't really immerse myself with Experimental
> >I was one of them, I didn't really immerse myself with Experimental
> >Electronic Music until I picked up Kid A. There was gamut of reviews
> >(weeks before the albums release) making the indication that it was
> >obviously influenced by Aphex, Autechre, BoC and a fraction of the
> >Warp Catalogue to name a few.
>
>
> great story, i'm glad my comment brought that out.
>
First bands I got into as a fourteen/fifteen-year-old were Radiohead,
REM, and Blur. Not very IDM. It's when you go influence-chasing,
though, and get exposed to new stuff, that interesting things start to
happen.
Boards of Canada at an impressionable moment, Radiohead's "Kid A"
(Everything In Its Right Place is _still_ majestic), Wire and their
side projects, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, godspeed!, Tortoise, Kraftwerk:
*they*'re what got me into electronic music, indirectly. Indie ->
post-rock/ post-punk->idm is a succession of relatively small leaps,
but they can get you a long way.
I suspect this has something to do with the rise of indie electronica;
Four Tet has clear Radiohead associations, for instance.
I still like all of the above. I'm not ashamed.
- A
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