awww man, the list has been so nice lately without any of these types of
ponderings of the 'meaning of IDM' and all that stuff. :(
--- "Knapman, James" <JKnapman@PFS.Co.UK> wrote:
quoted 69 lines It's interesting this. I, for one, certainly don't give a damn about the
> 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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