From martin burbridge Sent Fri, Oct 23rd 1998, 19:19
irene wrote: > > On 23 Oct 98, James Seo wrote re: (idm) music is rotten, period.: > > > Of 15 tracks, only one song - My Sound - touched me in any > > way. > > YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH. > > Maybe it's a grower - first 2 tracks are pretty hot as well. > > I > * when i 1st heard "hard normal daddy" i hated its flashy muso jazz prog rock wankery, just couldn't understand it. and the acidy/electro melodies seemed somewhat ugly and lumpen compared to those sleek aphex washes. but the rhythmn and absolute spot on-ness of those apparently wild random drum breaks won me over. the sounds that had previously offended me became placeholders for the dynamics of the music, and stopped being so goddam irritatin. it is (unfortunately) mainly responsible for me being unable to hate jazz any more. it sounds like he's made a jazz record. on his own, w/out the improvisational sparks that fuelled the records that influenced it. in that respect, and as someone who was playing bass in a pub rock band, and then spent 5 years doing acid, and d'n'b,it seems unfair to compare it to davis' and hancock's works which came many years into their careers. its already happened on this list and in the (don't mention the goddam) wire (again, please). i'm going to shut up now, 'till i actually get to hear the thing, but from the descriptions it doesn't sound like there's going to much 'idm content' on there, so why we even talking about it? -martin np: bugger all, can't wait to get home.