Re: (idm) Necessary IDM albums /Thoughts on Ischemic folks
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quoted 2 lines Minimal for me always meant minimal effort. Come on, its difficult to listen> Minimal for me always meant minimal effort. Come on, its difficult to listen
> to. Don't you feel cool becuase you like it?
hmm? minimal is difficult to listen to? god, i wonder what's EASY. i
usually listen to minimal techno when i want to have music i don't have
to think about. it's my alternative to silence. i wouldn't call that
difficult music.
as for feeling cool, well... if you LIKE it, i don't see the big deal.
do you feel cool because you worship autechre? a lot of their material
could be thrown in the 'difficult listening' bin, you know.
oh, & i'm pretty sure richard devine puts a lot of effort in each of his
tracks. in the end, you may not understand his point, but that's at
least as much your problem as it is his.
maybe you should begin to understand that music is not always enjoyed
the same way, & that there is a large gamut of possible appreciations
ranging from the senseless addiction to trash pop to a technical study
of the elements in electroacoustic music. you don't watch an old
orchard beach postcard the same way you appreciate a miro painting, do you?
quoted 3 lines To reiterate, IDM is fun and enjoyable, and is certainly mind opening. Just> To reiterate, IDM is fun and enjoyable, and is certainly mind opening. Just
> don't get caught in the "this is difficult to listen to, must be good" trap.
> Its difficult to sort through the noise. There is a lot of junk out there.
this is the funniest overgeneralization someone can make about
'difficult music': that people listen to it merely because they feel
it's going to give them some social status. if that is so, well, EVERY
kind of music is going to influence your social perception anyway, &
difficult music (let me toss in electroacoustics, noise, free jazz,
glitchies & other weird stuffs which i happen to love dearly), by being
so demanding, does not allow one to take it too lightly, so that problem
is much more likely to happen with 'easy listenable' genres such as
house, drum n bass, name it. i've never encountered a single person who
buys stacks of weird records just because they think it'll make them
cool. & if they do, it's their problem, not the music's. what usually
happens is that someone will buy something they know they won't
understand right away, in a genuine wish to broaden their musical knowledge.
once again a marginal problem gets the spotlight & the music that it's
associated with gets mistaken as the cause of the problem.
one more: difficulty in music is EXACTLY what sprouted that metagenre
still called 'idm'. if you dismiss it, you're being contradictory.
~ david
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