From daniel Sent Sun, Jun 28th 1998, 08:35
From daniel Sent Sun, Jun 28th 1998, 08:35
So I have been sitting here over the past few days reading posts about the good old days and intelligent vs. unintelligent. I think it is time for some perspective. I think a major reason people are having such a hard time with the music of today is that they have fallen into the trap of listening to what is the most available and accessible. Of course the stuff that is easy to find is going to be influenced by drum and bass because drum and bass sells. Things that don't sell well are hard to find. Why? because stores won't order them. Simple economics. Also, you have to look beyond labels you have heard of. Sure warp is putting out some good stuff. Sure skam is putting out some good stuff. But the ground breaking material isn't on those labels. Check out a-musik, suction and rastermusic for example. These labels put out some weird stuff but they also put out some incredible dense melodic music. You also, have to look beyond this label of IDM. Some of the better releases can be found in genres like industrial and house. Check out glassgow underground. Sure it is house but it is jazzy and all around wonderful. But most people wouldn't know that because it has a house beat. And in this intelligent world that kind of beat can't be good. If I would have stayed in my little crafted IDM world I would never have found download, shinjuku thief, UI, surgeon and the whole basic channel thing (among others). The intelligence debate: to quote jeff mills: "there is no such thing as bad music. Point blank. There is no record the whole world would agree this is shit" That should cover that. Lastly, what is all this nonsense of peole using /// and symbols in their emails? Because vvm does it do people think it is the in thing to do? part of being clever is finding your own voice. I know I will get flamed for all this but after 1 weeks of emails that embodied the above I could handle no more. -daniel