At 8:28 PM +0000 6/14/00, idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org wrote:
quoted 3 lines anyway i hope this clears up my point a little... negative reviews alone>anyway i hope this clears up my point a little... negative reviews alone
>don't justify an artist ... they are a symptom that goes along with TRUE
>artistic achievement
quoting raymond chandler:
"The mystery story grew cold and cynical about motive and character,
but it was not cynical about the effects it tried to produce nor
about its technique of producing them. A few unusual critics
recognized this at the time, which was all one had any right to
expect. The average critic never recognizes an achievement when it
happens. He explains it after it has become respectable."
-- from "Introduction to 'The Simple Art of Murder'"
replace "mystery story" with "post-Warp era intelligent dance music"
and "motive and character" with "pitch and timbre" (or something
similarly electro) and there's not much else to say, folks.
i respect kid606, v/vm and underscore and the tons of truly
independent, punk, fuck-it-that-sounds-good-so-let's-do-it electronic
musicians and labels but i can't respect the output (yet). i'm sorry.
it's not about the anti-anti-establishment hip mentality, i just
can't get into it.
i suppose it could be a 'beat deafness' on my part -- something
biological or whatever -- like some are tone deaf. but it's just not
for me. i won't be listening to it more than a few times in my life,
so it has no meaning for me.
sorry...
yrs,
a.
"talk amongst yourselves"
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