From Tomas Jirku Sent Tue, Jun 29th 1999, 20:41
>Check out _3 Cornered Room_ and then try to say Autechre has the "hip >hop >sound". You'll gag on the inaccuracies. >For a review of what started the scene and defined hip hop and "B-boy" >check out _B-Boys Revenge_, mixed together by the Scratch Perverts. >Might >teach the suburbanite to stop recklessly attaching the term hip hop to >all >downtempo tracks. have you ever heard ae's "goz quarter" or "ccec"? you'd think that hiphop has been around long enough to encompass quite a large range of styles within the genre. if you consider that crap that's coming out these days is still considered hiphop, i'm sure hiphop does not need to be defined so rigidly. damn, this might as well be a fricken "who's IDM" thread. tomas