From Chris.Hilker Sent Wed, Oct 22nd 1997, 01:19
From Chris.Hilker Sent Wed, Oct 22nd 1997, 01:19
>I think, to a certain extent, IDM is one of the
>few dance based genres to have produced good albums. House music has not
>produced very many amazing albums, and likewise neither has a lot of
>techno (although techno/IDM seem to overlap quite a lot). The best LP
>music is usually that which has it's roots in one genre but is not
>afraid to explore others or create totally new ones.
I think if IDM were a radio format, it'd be called album-oriented
techno (if they hadn't already settled on electronica). I think
that much of the same dynamic is at work separating IDM from the
more traditional forms of house and techno that separated e.g. Led
Zeppelin and Pink Floyd from e.g. Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
("Yuck! How can you say Aphex is like Robert Plant, he's all old and
nasty and stuff!")
C.
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