quoted 3 lines My only gripe is that many of the songs on both compilations are "playing> My only gripe is that many of the songs on both compilations are "playing
> with their cards face up," meaning that most of the tricks used in the
> songs are pretty standard for most of what qualifies as IDM, and even
stuff
quoted 1 line that doesn't qualify as IDM. Perhaps I'm just becoming more familiar> that doesn't qualify as IDM. Perhaps I'm just becoming more familiar
with
quoted 3 lines the music making process used by most of the current crop of idm artists,> the music making process used by most of the current crop of idm artists,
> but it certainly takes some of the magic out. Still, these two releases
> are pretty good - better than your average compilation.
Not to completely lame-out by responding to myself, but I think that's a
key part to it - much of the idm and newer artists that have cropped up in
recent times use "tricks" instead of just writing good songs. There's
granular tricks, synthesis tricks, tempo tricks (oh gawd tempo tricks),
start/stop loop tricks... where's the composition? It's like there's 2
sides - the sides that want to make interesting music that's fun, and the
other side that wants to make music to intentionally mess with the
listener/crowd. I will say that I can listen to one side all day, while
the other gets kind of grating after an hour or so. I won't say which side
is which, though :D
cheers,
/derek
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