You have a good point, but the following line that I included in my original
post: "a place where people can discuss the music of Aphex Twin, Boards of
Canada, Squarepusher, and the like" is just a general description of what
goes on here ("and the like" being the key phrase here). It'd take way more
patience than I have to list all of the other artists that are discussed
here besides the ones I mentioned... there are just too many.
Looking back through the tons archives, the artists you mentioned (B.
Fleischmann, Solvent, Arovane, Prefuse 73) are discussed very very regularly
here, so I guess that I'm not seeing what your gripe is about... Was it just
a general one saying that ppl on-list should stop talking about Aphex or BoC
or squarepusher, or is that you feel other artists in the same genre
(more-or-less) should be talked about more?
eh???
I don't get it.
-somrux.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Beers" <sbeers@agencyultra.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:47 AM
Subject: [idm] Get over the old music. WAS: phoenecia sux!!!
quoted 1 line No, but you *can* expect this list to be a place where people often
> >No, but you *can* expect this list to be a place where people oftenquoted 35 lines their opinion's of music - whether it's old music or new. Which is the
> >their opinion's of music - whether it's old music or new. Which is the
> >whole point - a place where people can discuss the music of Aphex Twin,
> >Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, and the like.
> | -somrux.
>
> why the heck do we insist on classifying "IDM" as the same old artists.
> i dont even LISTEN to aphex or squarepusher anymore. squarepushers
> last decent album was big loada. aphex's was the RDJ album! autechre
> hasn't made a good album since Chaistic Slide. the point is is that
> the face of good electronic music has changed, and we have to admit
> this, instead of telling people to go buy Autechre's back catalog.
>
> With artists like B. Fleischmann, Abfahrt Hinwil, Solvent, Arovane,
> Prefuse 73, and many others coming on strong, there isn't any reason
> to continue talking about has-been artists who haven't made a decent
> track since 1997. And even if you want to talk about "old" classics,
> why not bring up stuff like Funkstorung, Bochum Welt, Cylob, and Push
> Button Objects? The 1990's weren't owned by RDJ and Booth & Brown.
> Continuing to pigeonhole the idea of "IDM" into the few artists
> constantly mentioned limits the scope of records that new members may
> want to check out.
>
> While I am not saying that somrux was saying exactly what I am
> talking about, his comment shows how limited in diversity most of the
> music mentioned on IDM is. i, for one, cannot even fathom how so many
> people have chimed in about aphex's new CD drukqs. do we really need
> 50 emails with one-sentence replies about how good or bad you think
> it is? the man hasn't made anything worth talking about in years. why
> do we hang on, waiting for any piss of his to hit our ears? why not
> read some release lists and get listening to some new music?
>
> my rant is over. replies with actual thought-out sentences will be
> read. anything else will be ignored.
>
> shane