From Rusty Householter Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 00:57
From Rusty Householter Sent Fri, Apr 9th 1999, 00:57
> >>Compare someone who makes > >> "difficult/avant garde" music to a kid who goes out to raves every > weekend and > >> eats loads of drugs - Reynolds would argue that the kid is actually doing > more > >> to push the envelope, challenge the status quo, etc. > > Not only that, but that the musician who makes the soundtracks for that > kid's nights out is making wierder and freakier music than any of the > bedroom idm geeks who stand back from the dancefloor and make their own > versions of club sounds (witness Drill'n'Bass) I found that out to be true myself. Myself being some guy noddling about with computer programs on the weekend, the traditional bedroom musician. I then find that not to be the case when I meet this one guy, true IDM, stays up for days at a time making tracks that sound like V/Vm (which makes me wonder what minimal effort it is to make some of those tracks), has shit loads of equipment then calls me on not making music for myself, because I like to dance to Jeff Mills and Hawtin. Bugger if I care for him and his "dirty insomniac" IDM musician contingency. He just characterizes everything as noise. >From your friend Boffin, ermmmm....known to everyone else as Rusty PS: I did like Reynolds book. I suggested it to that friend but just an impossible guy that he is. Also Ocean of Sound...but just not a spotter I assume.