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quoted 2 lines I love IDM, but I find that often after having let it dominate my thoughts

>I love IDM, but I find that often after having let it dominate my thoughts >and time on my stereo, the one aspect of my life that seems unfulfilled is

I completely agree. There are some times when IDM just doesn't cut it. Those are the times when I find the need to blast some Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd or anything with singing. This seems to happen a lot more in the car than anywhere else. I mean, what's better for battling rush hour: "When the Levee Breaks" by Zeppelin or "Disc 1, Track 1" from SAW II? I'd take the Zeppelin. (On a side note, has anyone else found that IDM can even be dangerous while driving? There are at least a couple artists I can name that have actually made me fall asleep at the wheel because of their endless repetition. Plastikman comes to mind.) And sometimes when I want to make music that reflects my emotions, I want to write music with lyrics. Sure, I can come up with a sad melody and put a crunchy beat on it like Autechre or Bola might do, but no one will really know what I feel unless I use words. Someone mentioned that he thinks IDM is where music is heading. I don't agree with this if he means that IDM will be popular one day. I don't think IDM will ever be mainstream because most people just don't or won't understand it. That's fine. That means it will be around for a long time, unspoiled. Okay, I think I ventured too far on that post. Later. J.O. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (TIP!) What a wonderrful selection with musical perspective....the song about vegetables and wind makes me cry.. but Good Vibrations is Santa Monica in July. For me, music always takes me back to when it was - where it was and who I was/wasn't with when I heard it. Once I was so taken with a Silent Poets track I replayed it so many times, I wrote 40 pages of poetry... When I do yoga, I hear Harold Budd/Brian Eno "The Pearl" in my head, even tho there is no sound in the room. When I hear "In The Still Of The Night" I think of the very first time a boy ever asked me to dance and held me close. Whenever I hear "White Rabbit" I flash back to an amyl trip @ 14..... &"Whole Lotta Love" just makes me shake my long hair & do the hippie dance. Whenever I hear Marvin Gaye sing "What's Goin' On" I get thefonky ghetto blues... As for N.O.W., Aphex, Orb - too many memories mushrooms, stonedness, clouds surround my head... In 1988, around midnite I was in a record shop in San Fran where I regularly routed for tunes and I found "Strings of Life" second track in on the Bside - My hair stood on end, my spine tingled... And I'll never forget the reaktion the Beasties "Fight For Your Right To Party" or Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" raised whenever I dropped them in the early hours of djing.... "Stop Making Sense" Check Brian Enos "Life in the Bush of Ghosts" Night before my Xmas holiday to the Sinai I made a mix tape of Neotropic & 9 Lazy 9 -- pure beach music & spent 3 hours walkin along a deserted beach on Xmas day, so whenever I hear those tunes now, I get warm as sunshine & warp myself back to the beach.... life is life people is people music is music this is what the man in the desert taught me..... was this post too romantic? i got inspired. wendy@ninjatune.net coldcut@ninjatune.net coldcut on da radio mon nite 12am-2am gmt http://www.bbc.co.uk/londonlive http://www.worldtimezone.com coldcut on da innernet wed nite 8pm - 3/4am http://www.piratetv.net http://www.ninjatune.net new albums to look 4: dj food - kaleidoscope amon tobin - supermodified tourin': kid koala doin usa in may --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Previously... "Somehow, (and I'm not knocking AFX) I became drained by the music. I dunno, it's difficult to express exactly how I was feeling at the time, but it was kind of frustrated...I couldn't get my mind to focus properly. What I needed was some SOUL." i think i know this feeling. But i have always attributed it to the difficulty of the music. I find things like AFX and the like to be a challenging listen (at least parts of it), which you can't just grasp the whole meaning of by drifting away into the soft melodies and whimsical lyrics. even if its some good guitar rock, it still holds that structure, its not challenging your ears and internal audio processors the same way idm does. but its for the same reasons that i'm growing to love so much idm as much as i do, but at the same time i'm understanding how much i can't let go of everything else...if only for my sanity. k --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org