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From:
John Bush
To:
Glenn McClements ,
Date:
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:16:38 -0500
Subject:
RE: [idm] style groups of similar artists
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quoted 2 lines although I think Jean Michel Jarre is> although I think Jean Michel Jarre is > there in Autechre's listing, ahem......
Nope, Autechre's listing is unsullied by the likes of Jean Michel Jarre -- though he's not far off as an influence. ;> Anyway, we're also working on different kinds of links: instead of just Similar Artists, the site could eventually offer more abstract kinds of soundalikes (the "See Also" column on the right-hand side is a bit of a preview to this). Instead of showing just what we here pick as being similar to Artist A, it would use more abstract categories to show links we wouldn't have thought of. (Which explains why Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Boredoms show up on several of Autechre's review pages.) -----Original Message----- From: Glenn McClements [mailto:glenn.mcclements@openwave.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:55 PM To: idm@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [idm] style groups of similar artists Doesn't AllMusic do something like this already? They have a 'see also' section for each artist (although I think Jean Michel Jarre is there in Autechre's listing, ahem......) and music maps, which do a pretty good job of categorizing genres while realising that each one doesn't exist in a vacuum. Glenn Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 73 lines I was toying around with the idea of a "musical>I was toying around with the idea of a "musical >spectrum" of styles, kinda like a colorwheel for >music, except that it would have to be three >dimensional (maybe 4-dimensional?) and it would be too >complex, really. For me, anyway... Something along >the lines of what you get when you play around with >Amazon's music recommendations system, but >"definitive" (ha!). > >OK, so this is really stupid, I know, but I thought >someone might be amused by the tiny sampling of 'idm' >artists in "style groups" I came up with. Obviously >the part that has hip-hop type stuff is just ignorant >on my part, and the rest isn't that amazing either, so >just don't take me seriously: > >Four Tet >Fridge >Tortoise >Savath & Savalas >Delarosa & Asora >Telefon Tel Aviv > >OutKast >Anti-Pop Consortium >cLOUDDEAD >Prefuse 73 >Machine Drum > >Syndrone >Funckarma >L'Usine ICL >Phonem >Arovane > >Ulrich Schnauss? >Manual? > >Múm >E*Vax >Isan >Solvent >Lowfish > >Lali Puna >Broadcast >Stereolab > >... >Fun, huh! >I didn't really know where to put any of the "big >names" like BoC or Autechre ... and I'm just realizing >that there'd have to be a whole group for Venetian >Snares & Otto Von Schirach & Richard Devine and... > >Why do I waste your time with this crap? > > >===== >.Adam >http://www.damek.org/ > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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