On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dominick Winters wrote:
quoted 3 lines Someone has still to explain to me what links this band with anything> Someone has still to explain to me what links this band with anything
> remotely IDM.
> I am asking a serious question here.
What _links_ them with IDM? Well, directly, not much (bar a few
remixes Kevin Shields has done over the years)
Philosophically, I'd argue that the abstract and
all-encompassing approach to sound that MBV took
between say _Glider_ and _Loveless_ has a lot in
common with the work of IDM producers. Shields
& Co. approached sound design via guitars, outboard
effects, tape manipulation, multitracking, etc.,
often achieving similar results to what producers
now get from samplers, software, and, in some
cases, mistreated guitar effects boxes. :)
Is it IDM? Of course not. Is it endlessly fascinating
sound manipulation that achieves the sort of depth and
interesting textures people at least pay lip service
to around here? I think so, and quite a few of your
favorite IDM, techno, and ambient producers do, too.
-d.w.
np: Sam Prekop
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