quoted 11 lines Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:29:38 -0700> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:29:38 -0700
> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
> Subject: Re: [idm] idm/harsh electro/noise/industrial crossover
> Message-Id: <200309121229.AA3277548@chthonicstreams.com>
>
> fair enough. i'd assumed it was a continuation of harsher forms of
> techno that arose as ecstasy began to contain more
> amphetemines (and even heroin). as a result, many techno clubs
> got meaner and uglier, so did the music. that was what i heard
> anyway. i wasn't at those clubs, so i don't know.
This has to be one of the silliest myths ever perpetuated. Nevermind the
whole "what's really in ecstasy" bit, just the part about music being
so drastically affected by it is total bunk. I suppose Mr. Simon
Reynolds' appearance in "Modulations" is partly to blame, since he
reiterated (fabricated?) it there. And of course the astonishingly
competent filmmaker(s) behind Modulations decided to use an Autechre track
as the bed for that segment. How appropriate.
And for the record I think X is crap. Whether or not it made music
"meaner and uglier."
N.
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