well that's me told then, huh....
"IDM" I, don't actually remember asking what IDM meant and who cares anyway,
genres and labels are made up by people like me who work within the media,
you see it's much easier to sell things when they have what is perceived to
be a desirable label.... I joined this list because the label "IDM"
allegedly fits my sphere of musical interests, not to be preached at...
now where's my speedy j (a shocking hobby) cd I want some aural violence....
Paul
quoted 34 lines From: Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com>> From: Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:55:28 -0700
> To: paul humphreys <paul@bluepeach.co.uk>
> Cc: Intellectual Discussions Masturbatory <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Subject: Re: [idm] Autechre - What Happened there then....
>
> Wow! You just managed to combine the two of the all-time bandwidth-wasting
> subjects of the IDM list:
>
> 1) Why doesn't Autechre make good music any more?
> 2) What is IDM?
>
> The answers are:
>
> 1) They do. You just don't like it. Forget about them, and move on.
> It's silly to expect artists to keep producing the same stuff,
> no matter how "good" it is or how much you may like or dislike it.
> I've no doubt that Autechre could produce a worthy successor to
> Amber or Tri Repetae if they wanted to. But they obviously don't.
> Deal with it.
>
> 2) A mailing list. The initials may have referred to something long,
> long ago, but that's barely relevant now. The intelligence,
> danceability, and musicality of the recordings and performances
> discussed there are all debatable, but long experience teaches
> that such debates never go anywhere. Ever. Sorry.
>
> -Ed
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