Re: (idm) Industrial changed me

From Lance C McGannon
Sent Fri, Sep 18th 1998, 18:34

At 01:35 AM 9/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Just noticed that most people who sent in lists had a fair amount of US 
>industrial stuff listed which I thought was interesting - shows how the 
>IDM readership has really shifted from a UK/European base (when we used 
>to talk about things like The Orb, Rephlex, A.R.T. and Detroit 
>influenced techno with only guys like Jon (Drukman) and Greg banging on 
>about industrial stuff) to now where its more US based. 
>

Well i didn start out in industrial. I was into cheesy 
alternative dance stuff like soup dragons, jesus jones,
happy mondays, inspirial carpets, big audio dynamite,
electronic, and revenge. but slowly i discovered the
releases below...

. Orb: Adventures in the Ultraworld 2xcd (Wau Mr Modo)
. 808 State: Ninety cd (ZZT)
. As One: Reflections cd (New Electronica)
. B12: Electro-Soma cd (Warp)
. Autechre: Inculabula cd (Warp)
. Black Dog Productions: Bytes cd (Warp)
. KLF: Chill Out cd (KLF Comm)
. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 cd (Apollo)
. Bandulu: Antimatters cd (Infonet)
. Reload: A Collection of Short Stories cd (Infonet)

and i've been bigtime ever since...

>Seem to talk 
>about more experimental stuff nowadays as well - presumably thats 
>everyones kind of industrial influences coming through and being into 
>CD's skipping and wotnot. I used to know almost all the bands/artists 
>mentioned on IDM a few years back but I certainly don't now.

I'm also guilty of getting into the more experimental
stuff lately labels like mego, phthalo, soniq, a-musik,
sabotage, moikai have been turning my crank lately
but i haven't stopped buying other styles. still have
pleanty of detrtoit, techno, tech-house, house and
idm. i'll get those recoreviews out soon.

>Detroit techno and ambient stuff doesn't really get a mention any more 
>but thats due to 313 and Ambient lists forming I guess.
>

I still LOVE detroit stuff. I have a slew of recoreviews 
waiting to be done, many of those are detroit releases. I'll
try to get those reviewed on posted soon. 

>I think I had a point - blame my hangover.
>

Damn that sauce!

-->-Lance---
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