chthonic wrote:
quoted 2 lines pop is such a relative term. to people who are used to "out" shit,
> pop is such a relative term. to people who are used to "out" shit,
> 'amber' is poppy if not actually pop.
If I put on my electronic-music-grad-student hat, all IDM is pop music.
It's created in the commercial arena, and combines variations on popular
rhythms with computer music techniques created in academia thirty years
ago.
If I take a more common-sense viewpoint, it's pretty clear to me that
pop-ness is a continuum with Britney on one end and Xenakis on the other,
and there's not much point in drawing a line somewhere and saying
everything to one side is pop and everything else isn't--especially
because how poppy something is has a very weak relationship to how good it
is. Personally I'd rather listen to good pop music than bad art music, and
vice versa.
The first Autechre track I ever heard was "Gantz graf", and everything
I've heard by them since has been pretty good, but a little bland compared
to that. Maybe CONFIELD is what I need.
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