I suppose this has nothing to do with IDM at all, except that I can
*definitely* see people liking this that like IDM type stuff, but the most
recent Ativin ("German Water", on Polyvinyl) and Don Caballero ("What Burns
Never Returns", on Touch&Go) releases do some insane stuff with hardly any,
if any, 4/4 signatures. They do it all with bass guitars, guitars, and
standards drums, so that's why it is not IDM. However, some of the songs
could definitely fit in to a IDM set, both these albums are as complex and
evocative as anything an artist on this list done...(and thankfully, they
have both zilch vocals)
At 11:03 PM 2/28/99 -0600, lazlo wrote:
quoted 24 lines Amon Tobin did a rabid 5/4 cut on Permutation, "Sordid." Blame's "360
>Amon Tobin did a rabid 5/4 cut on Permutation, "Sordid." Blame's "360
>Click" is in 7/8, and then there's Laika (who don't really fall into this
>group of musicians)--they're infamous for going against 4/4.
>
>As for Autechre, they experimented with "no repetitive beats" on "Flutter"
>in 1994 as a means of protest against the CJB. Weird fun shit that
>actually mixed well into Warp's "Blech" comp.
>
>They're rare, but not impossible to find. The further people dig into jazz
>roots, the more you'll begin to see it on the scene.
>
>laz
>
>Tomas Jirku wrote:
>
>> how rare is a non-4/4 time signature in IDM/techno? if anyone knows of
>> any songs with odd time signatures, please tell!
>> i would think autechre would experiment in this area but i can't recall
>> if any of their songs do deviate from 4/4.
>>
>> tomas
>
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