On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Nicholas Rejack wrote:
quoted 2 lines Sure, Grooves is a decent rag, if you only listen to IDM-List Approved Music
> Sure, Grooves is a decent rag, if you only listen to IDM-List Approved Music
> (TM).
pretty true
quoted 1 line And dig that line on the cover - "Experimental Electronic Music." ?
> And dig that line on the cover - "Experimental Electronic Music." ?
I don't know, I think there are things that get lumped into the IDM
category which I think are pretty "experimental" in some aspects
(recent Autechre, Mego, Richard Devine, Oval, Phthalocyanine, etc.), but
generally I would say most IDM is "experimental" if only compared to
mainstream pop music. Even then I think P.E.'s Bomb Squad produced
material, for example, was way more radical than the majority of IDM.
That whole "experimental" tag is kinda silly anyway. I mean there's
experimentation involved in every creative act. Maybe a more appropriate
tag for Grooves would be "Non-mainstream Electronic Music" or some silly
thing like that.
If you wanted to get a sense of electronic music's real cutting edge you
could look into MIT's Computer Music Journal or Organised Sound or
Musicworks, for example.
And while we're on the subject of IDM related mags I like Angbase.
http://noiseweb.com/angbase/index.html
Andrei
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