Pretty funny/weird of this Alex Reynolds fellow to
respond to the URB posting with more name calling and
elitist remarks.
--- Alex Reynolds <reynolda@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
quoted 76 lines Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:25:48 EDT
> >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:25:48 EDT
> >From: Djslacker227@aol.com
> >
> >Forget pop we're famous:
> >
> >Darren Keast writes in an article about kid 606
> pissing off "the snobby
> >electronic music intelligentsia" in the latest
> issue of URB
> >
> >"people on the idm e-mail list ridicule him...
> deviant listeners like those
> >in the bitchy intelligent dance music
> scene...haters on the idm list whine
> >that he gets too much attention outside their
> exclusive ranks"
> >
> >URB is definitely a pop culture magazine, and I
> think that it confirms my
> >conjecture that the idm list and experimental
> techno have an elitist image,
> >especially thanks to that whole kid 606/lexaunculpt
> string that pretty much
> >killed any rep or integrity that the list had at
> all.
>
> let's be honest: URB is the last place anyone would
> go to for
> reputation and integrity. while we breathe rarer,
> purer air up here
> in the mountains of idm-l, at least we can justify
> what we like. we
> can put a name on it and call it Good. and the
> list's disagreements
> over what is good music is mostly both entertaining
> and intelligent.
>
> at the risk of being blunt, the whole dsp/noise
> scene with kid606 as
> its poster child is an overrated fad, fed on the
> pseudo-punk image of
> the artists and not much more. only white
> college-age kids can make
> hip-hop unlistenable and get pats on the back from
> pop culture rags. it
> may be sound or noise, but it's not music any more
> than my aging
> refrigerator condensor's decaying, chaotic whine at
> three in the
> morning is music.
>
> i'll believe that kid606 and similarly styled
> musicians are
> legitimate artists when you start hearing crunching,
> arrhythmic dsp
> crap in the next britney spears or madonna album. it
> would mean
> either people are dumb as paint and they'll buy
> anything mtv tells
> them to, or there really is something aesthetic that
> this technique
> (and that's all it is) adds to a piece of music.
>
> until then, i don't buy the hype. and i sure as hell
> won't look to
> URB for what i should consider "legitmate" music and
> what i should
> not. (and as to whether idm-l has any "rep" or
> "integrity" or
> "credibility" any more is another discussion
> entirely, but is URB
> really the place to start looking for an answer?)
>
> -a.
>
>
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