At 02:59 PM 10/8/2003 +0000, you wrote:
quoted 10 lines On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:24 PM, Eggy Toast wrote:>On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:24 PM, Eggy Toast wrote:
>>I just think the music has stylistically changed from when it started.
>>The only thing really tying new idm to old are the artists, and most of
>>them have followed into the newer type of music.
>
> From our relatively hypersensitive standpoint, that's true... but I feel
> like someone coming from a non-IDM-intensive musical place would find the
> differences between older stuff and newer stuff to be trifling. Are (to
> pick names at random) Arovane and Ulrich Schnaus really that different
> from early Aphex and Autechre?
Yeah, I'd say so. Perhaps not the two names you picked, but the prevalence
of "fuckery," in the parlance of our times, has really changed a lot of
what IDM used to be, in my mind. My girlfriend, who isn't into much
electronic music, notices it and has a like for the stuff that's a bit more
"aged." You know, the stuff that doesn't need to throw in 3 tempo changes
a minute or blast a wall of noise to signal a breakdown every randomly
assigned beats.
It's not that there's anything wrong with it, but I think that element has
caused more of a split between what's IDM now vs. what was IDM before. I
mean, when I got into it, stuff that seemed as disparate as autechre to
amon tobin fell under the same category, but now there's the people who can
keep a groove going for a whole song and make it good (pwckaggfawsamig) vs.
people who need to change everything up every few measures (pwntceuefw).
derek
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