Re: (idm) Necessary IDM albums /Thoughts on Ischemic folks
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quoted 3 lines the bottom line being that idm is an extremely disposable genre. it>the bottom line being that idm is an extremely disposable genre. it
>doesn't mean it's bad or useless. just that you'll find yourself bored
>with it eventually. especially if it keeps going the way it does.
interesting. i think the same goes for just about everything, really.
i was heavily into drum and bass, with an unhealthy $50-100 /week record
buying habit. this spring i was laid off, and i was forced to stop buying.
it was very hard for a couple of months, and then something weird happened:
i took stock of all the music i'd been buying since '96, and i realized that
a good percentage of it was crap. it's sad that it took a financial
situation to me to get to this point. it was like the conversion of Paul.
now, this isn't to say that i now hate drum and bass. far from it. i've
just gained some much-needed perspective on the entire genre. on the
positive side, it REALLY led me to understand which artists had stood the
test of time (klute, tech itch, alaska/paradox, myer/hexer. . .) and who i
can't stand to hear any longer (bad company, rush/opt, practically anything
on hardware. . .)
now i'm one of those guys that i used to HATE back in '96: "Man, drum and
bass is just lame now, dude. All these tracks sound the same." irritating,
eh?
anyhow, my point is this: record buying, especially within a single genre,
can certainly lead to a kind of myopia. for myself, i've learned that my
musical growth was kind of stunted when i limited myself to just one flavor
of music. i began to think that the world revolved around drum and bass,
the most progressive dance music ever. actually, i believe that this is
essentially what's happened to drum and bass in the last couple of years,
as people have taken the (then) revolutionary sounds of the mighty optical
to a truly yawn-inducing conclusion.
i could go as far as relating this to other cults of personality in the IDM
world like squarepusher or Burger/Koln, but that's a different and much more
tiresome discussion.
bottom line: PLEASE don't JUST listen to fill-in-your-favorite-genre-here.
i'm trying not to sound like some self-appointed wise old man, but i've done
it and it's lame.
-jeff
p.s. to the original poster: yeah, it's always this overblown in here :)
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