Some of you all weren't around for the IDM list in the 90s but Andrew
Weatherall was right up there as an artist frequently name-checked. What
this list talks about has evolved away from music like his, but he was
seminal in the scene that the IDM list was started to discuss. Because in
the beginning, IDM was about the dance music that wasn't one-dimensional
floor fillers. Weatherall made floor fillers with substance.
He died today suddenly. It's a huge loss. He was a popular DJ who also
managed to be a DJ's DJ. When some people die, people talk of their body
of work, but Andrew Weatherall had a continent of work, an ocean of work.
Always inventive, always exploring, but never putting intellectual exercise
over making compelling dance music.
So if you haven't heard him, or heard of him, it's time to check Sabres of
Paradise, Two Lone Swordsmen, and Andrew Weatherall's music under his own
name.