On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:26:30 CDT, Adam Piontek wrote:
: On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:21:30 -0500, James R McPherson wrote:
: >Am I correct in thinking that the work that Phoenicia has laid out in
: >_Lily of the Valley_ is their best work yet? ...
: I agree. I haven't liked any Phoenecia previous to the material on
: Lily of the Valley.
Yep, it takes all kinds. I actually found their material on Lily of
the Valley to be kind of shapeless and uninteresting. I like the
gamelan-like rhythms (and occasionally, on Ischemic Folks, timbres)
of their earlier efforts.
Of course, that's one of the most attractive (and sometimes infuriating)
aspects of this list: there are a lot of different tastes at the IDM
table, and so one has to consider the source whenever someone gives
a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. I doubt I'm alone in having my curiosity
piqued as much by certain bad reviews as by other good ones. When
I hear someone wondering why more IDM can't be like, say, Bola's Soup,
I've got to wonder if some folks are into the wrong genre *for them*.
(Make no mistake, I *like* Soup-era Bola, but frankly I can't see it as
being much different from some of the less shoe-gazing elements of New
Age music. Which I also like (e.g. Steve Roach).)
If I want emotive music, I'll listen to Mahler. (And I do.) For me,
IDM is a world of intriguing and inventive sound and structure, which
is one of the reasons it's so hard to define (I'm not silly enough to
even try). Thus one of things we each should carry to this list is
the knowledge that your IDM isn't necessarily my IDM--and I hope we
can agree to let it be that way without as much gaming around as we've
seen.
-Ed
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