Re: (idm) Why I Think IDM is Groovy [long]

From laerm
Sent Tue, Jun 30th 1998, 04:54

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Upton wrote:

> Re: any perceived decrease in quality over the past few years - I wonder
> if it's being jaded. I find listening to very un-IDM music (programming
> free, primarily song based stuff; or gamelan, or whatever) can work like
> cleaning the palette when there's _so_much_ product out there now.
this is how i feel when i write music. desires to write really hit me in
strong streaks, usually depending on what i've been recently listening to.
if i've been listening to a lot of ambient, and i feel a desire to write
something, it usually turns out to be an aggressive industrial track. now,
when i've been listening to industrial for awhile, and i feel a desire to
write, and it turns out to be an industrial track, it's usually crap;
whereas he one i wrote after listening to ambient for awhile is (imho)
pretty good. same thing goes for hip-hop/post-rock; jazz/synthpop;
dub/idm. anyone else noticed this?

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