Re: (idm) Helen.

From r. kidwell
Sent Tue, Jun 29th 1999, 21:15

> agreed. I never said that autechre was a rap ban who's missing an mc. I just
> thought it was a hilareous statement to say that there aren't hip-hop
> influences in SOME of their stuff. I think goz quarter is a fine exanple of
> this.
> I'm pretty sure I've read that rob & sean were (and maybe are) hip hop heads
> long before autechre happened, which would explain why to use the word
> "influence" wouldn't be so crazy.

yeah, there totally needs to be two words to signify
the difference between "influence" as in "they listened
to a lot of this and it has had an effect on them"
and "influence" as in "this music has a distinct discernible relation
to this other kind of music..."




,rj../