WEIRD: Is there another Dunstan on this list? Cause I'm -not- DJ Liteyear
... Just to set the record straight! :)
dave
On 10/24/02 12:19 PM, "production unit" <productionunit@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 98 lines Yo,
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> Yo,
> I found this guy (Mr Dunstan) on a Google search for my band's name, and
> was both chuffed to hear him play our record (on Dalriada) as the first
> tune, and also pleased by his comedy west country accent.
> I think that you are basically coming from the same angle that I did when
> entering the heady cave known (for better or for worse) as idm. I really
> liked Orbital (up to and including 'Insides'), Underworld, Chemical Brothers
> etc, but was looking for something a bit more fucked up and at the same time
> melodic and with substance. The first idm album I really fell for was
> 'Incunabula' by Autechre, and I still feel it's a stunning album, one which
> has aged very well. The Bauri material (like 'The Slacker Journal' on Neo
> Oujia) is also quite in that vein - not too terrifying for the new adept.
> This stuff is kinda glacial, if you know what i mean, emotively tuneful in a
> kind of bittersweet way. Nothing too crazy in the percussion tracks either.
> You may also like 'Fyuti' by Bola, on Skam, if these appeal to you.
> In terms of Machine Drum, who you also mentioned, you might want to check
> the Merck label, who he records with, or Prefuse 73 on Warp. Both do that
> skippy, scratchy hip hop - flip flop thing. Older Push Button Objects (eps
> on Schematic and Skam) fits the bill here too.
> Kettel veers to what I always am reminded of when I hear the term
> 'electronica'. People like Benge, Expanding records, Things on Benbecula
> like Mikael Romanenko or the 'Music vol 1 & 2' compilation. It's fairly
> self-conciously simple music - most of it usually contains one loop of ideas
> repeated over and over, with parts dropping in and out. There rarely seems
> to be a huge shift in any one song, but that can often be the most soothing
> aspect of this music. It seems to have taken a lot of influence from Boards
> of Canada, either of whose albums on Warp you should also try out as a first
> taste of idm.
> You like Recloose, maybe get some Carl Craig, but I'm not too clued up as
> to what's what with him. Recloose did a mix album, the name of which escapes
> me, and that would probably give you a good idea of artists and labels too
> watch for in that department.
> The other group of stuff that is considered idm is messy drill n'
> bass-type stuff: jungle through a blender, with hardcore/gabba craziness and
> usually a sense of fun. Examples: Recent Aphex twin a la Drukqs and Richard
> D. James, Most Squarepusher, Venetian Snares.
>
> I'm sure I've missed out vast ares of the pantheon, so maybe someone else
> would like to take on this Herculean task, the reference wallchart of idm.
>
> Ultimately, the best way to get into any scene is trial and error. The
> fact that there aren't any all-encompassing compilations that spring to mind
> doesn't help, but i suggest finding any record shop that lets you listen
> before you buy, looking for and listening to things you like/have heard good
> things about, and, by extension, looking for other things by these artists
> or labels connected to them. It worked for me.
>
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> The Marcia Blaine School for Girls:
> marciablaine.cjb.net
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> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:40:22 -0700
> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> From: "Steve Ellsworth" <steveellsworth@adelphia.net>
> Subject: DJ Dave Liteyear's Ray Gun Classics
> Message-ID: <00a901c27a35$270fd6c0$35ca4444@stmnca.adelphia.net>
>
> So I am new to this list and IDM (I am still having some trouble with the
> name of the genre for it sounds a little pretentious). That aside I am into
> electronica but I am becoming unsatisfied with the more mainstream stuff
> like Underworld, Chem Brothers, Orbital, Jungle noise, Drum&Bass repeats...
> So I searched and I found this DJ, Dave Liteyear, who plays stuff on the
> internet @ www.totallyradio.com (ray gun classics is the name of his show)
> and I eventually found this IDM list. A lot of the songs he spins are by
> artists NOT mentioned on this list. However would he be considered an IDM
> dj because the songs are really *cough* "Intelligent" sounding. He spins:
>
> Bauri
> Dalriada
> Recloose
> Kettel
> Machine Drum
> etc.
>
> I don't have any IDM albums at least I don't think I do...Would "Children of
> the Bong" be IDM? But I like this stuff that Liteyear plays. All I am
> getting at is should I go out and buy this Aphex Twin guy and Autechre and
> BoC and whatever else. Just wondering if I would like it or not.
>
> steveE
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