quoted 1 line Lots of good, especially at the boundaries - hard to say "best" though.>>Lots of good, especially at the boundaries - hard to say "best" though.
Perhaps this dearth of anything "best" reflects our collective listening
habits nowadays. Time was when I'd have been delighted to have heard 3 or 4
favourite albums in a given year. Nowadays, as I've found my listening
preferences broadening ever further into a so much less "tidy" mess, my
willingness to feel compelled to tip my hat to a single release as my
favourite has diminished. Add to this the amount of online content from
yesteryears that I'm only hearing now for the first time and it's not too
hard to become a little apathetic as to what's "favourite" round my ear
lobes. I'm bobbing expectantly (or swooning narcosis-like) to far too much
"good" material as to be unwilling (or unable) to put my finger on anything
that's "best".
The one pity however is how readily I've become willing to dismiss music
that doesn't fit the criteria that it should engage my attention upon first
listening. With so much music in the marketplace nowadays there's little or
no time to indulge that which doesn't immediately sate the appetite but
which could go a long way towards enriching your listening habits should it
have been given a more thorough inspection.
Which, in my case, accounts for why I listen to less and less "IDM".
In a way I think it's interesting that my listening to IDM should
suffer/stagnate as a result of the ability to test drive ahead of purchase,
i.e. broadband technology + digital music providers = resurgence in hippy
folk forms and post punk/hardcore nostalligators !
Is it (IDM) being bitten in the tail by that which it is (technology is
killing technologically innovative music forms) ?
Which all goes to make this word of mouth format (the list) of such
importance in resuscitating my interest in the form and revealing its
hidden secrets to me which it periodically still does...
IF we could ever get past talking about the (yawn) Bored of Canada or Aphex
Twin ?!?
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Ahoy!
Ditto on the Books! Not IDM per se, but of interest to all who ought to be
interested and are, and more. Understated, under-rated, nary a whiff of
trendy, just pure wild fun and love of sound - flat out genius. All their
records. Along with Kallikak Family, Animal Collective, and Six Organs of
Admittance, some of the brightest (as in opposite of "dim") music this, and
last, and the year before, or several...
IDM-wise, I'd have to tip the yarmulke to Monolake (again), Venetian Snares
(again), Autechre (again), Amon Tobin (again), and on into the blurry pop
fur lined automat of Dntel, Four Tet, Apparat, Solvent, Styrofoam, The
Postal Service, Figurine, The Notwist, Hood, Lali Puna, Caribou, Minotaur
Shock, Tarwater, etc, etc, etc. Lots of good, especially at the boundaries
- hard to say "best" though.
Ubu wah
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