Julius Caesar Salad wrote:
quoted 10 lines What bugs me about FW2 is that it's not musically or emotionally>> What bugs me about FW2 is that it's not musically or emotionally
>> original. Most of what it has to offer has already been done.
>
> I respect your opinion on it, but isn't that true of most music? There
> is very little that has never been done before somewhere in terms of
> style or approach. An example I haven't seen mentioned much is that a
> good portion of the early Aphex material (the noisy stuff) was a
> derivation of the fairly obscure early 80's industrial group "Esplendor
> Geometrico." Many who had never heard EG thought "Wow. this is something
> wild and new" when it really wasn't.
I'd be willing to bet that Richard never heard an Esplendor Geometrico tape
in his life.
I won't pretend to speak for all the members of Former Industrialists With A
Clue[tm] haunting this list, but I have several EG tapes and I don't know
what you're on about :-)
Other than the fact that the early Aphex stuff is "Industrial sounding", I
don't think it bears resemblance to Industrial forebears at all. That's
exactly why I liked it so much - it was taking sonic elements that I greatly
liked and pushed them into new frontiers/corners of the sonic palette.
(I think it's more interesting to note how the old-timer Industrialists are
now showing up on comps that are landing in the "Ambient"/"Trance" comps
at Aron's in Hollywood. And yes, they have a separate Industrial/Experimental
section, so it's not like they're wontonly misplaced.)
- Greg