It's interesting this. I, for one, certainly don't give a damn about the
processes used to program a particular idm record in the same way that I
have absolutely no interest in what equipment was used. I'm not a musician
myself. However, I can tell when something has been extremely well produced,
when complex programming was involved etc.
Music is the primary passion in my life and I spend more time listening to
than anyone I know personally. Which leads me onto my point.
Having listening to such a diverse range of music has altered the WAY I
listen to it I think. I'm certainly no genius and I don't pretend to have a
more furtive imagination than anyone else, although others would probably
tell me that I do. What I do know is that, for example, the people I work
with in the office, who are all pretty much the same age as me and are all
very charismatic and intelligent people, wouldn't even consider listening to
the type of music labels like Delsin, deFocus, Warp, neo ouija or morr music
put out. They simply don't get it, and they won't give it the time I think
it probably needs.
Believe me, I've tried to press them into actually listening to it. But you
watch them as they listen and you can see they just don't understand what
THE POINT of it is. Why is that? "It just sounds stupid. It sounds childish
and silly," someone told me when they listened to Plaid's "Rest Proof
Clockwork". And yet the album is supposed to be quirky and fun.
When someone borrowed brothomStates' "Qtio" e.p. he turned back after it
finished and just said, "But it's just random cut-up rubbish. You can't make
any sense of it."
Now, I've tried and tried. But if the music doesn't sound conventional some
people just switch off and don't even try to listen to it. (I nearly put the
word "understand" in there - how pretentious would that have been?).
So I would have to say that, while you don't need to be some sort of
pretentious intellectual to actually like IDM, certainly people with a more
open mind, a little more patience and perhaps with a little more imagination
are more proned to liking and listening to this stuff.
Just thought I'd throw my opinion in. This topic isn't always dealt with
with the sensitivity it's receiving this time round.
)Jq.
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