--- thomas shrubsole <ageispolis0000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
quoted 14 lines Actaully this is not directly linked, but its very
>
> Actaully this is not directly linked, but its very
> much on the topic of emotion in IDM music. It is a
> problem i find with a lot of 'IDM' artists. Take BoC,
> for example, non-threatening noodle. Warm noodling,
> granted, but that it is touted as particularly
> emotional seems innapropriate to me. For me it is a
> glorified easy listening, not provocative, emotionally
> or intellectually in any way. Im fine with easy
> listening, i have some myself (BoC included). But its
> just i think there is something being missed when
> music that is singularly one-dimensional in an
> emotional sense is presented as being particularly
> provocative, evocative etc.
I don't know what BoC you're listening to, but I've never heard anything
by them I'd call "glorified easy listening". I'm trying to figure out if
just seems tame compared to stuff you normally listen to, or if you're
specifically referencing the mellow early 80s sounding chime voice they
use in a few of their songs. When I think of BoC, I think of great
head-nodding beats, spacey (and yes, sometimes soothing) synth lines, and
unsettling melodic chord progressions with some semi- sinister-sounding
subliminal message shit thrown on top of it for good measure. I'm not
saying it's complex music, but I don't think that it's one-dimensional,
and I certainly don't put it in a category with someone like Plone as far
as being non-threatening. I think some of BoC's best stuff is downright
unnerving. I think of "easy listening" as that obnoxious white-bread shit
they play at offices that drives people to bring machine guns to work. I
guess it just goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder
(except with ears or something).
np: Techno Animal - Re-Entry
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