Noticed a brief thread on ELM copycattery - Autechre / RDJ imitators... I
haven't heard a lot of these 'imitators', but aren't Ae and RDJ extremely
broad artists to copy? I take the point about certain albums being
extremely, even suspiciously influential, but these artists are only copying
because they love that kind of music. 'Imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery.' Perhaps the classics are being imitated because they define their
own genre, which people get into and produce for. Rob Playford (or Kool
Herc, depending on your viewpoint) started the breakbeat thing - has
everyone been 'copying' them?
I mean, I'm influenced by all sorts of stuff (Ae, Third Eye Foundation,
Plone, prog-rockers Yes, Radiohead, Leftfield, Plone, BOC, a skipping CD,
resonant tones in the school toilets, etc.) but I don't think about what I'm
making. I just make and put together sounds I like, and it turns out
sounding sort of Plaid-like. I wrote my most Plaid-like material before I
even heard them. Might this be the kind of thing which Mr. Raczynski and co.
are doing?
That's not to say that the results are always memorable, but we can't make
classics (or our own genres) all the time...
Just some thoughts.
James Roberts
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