Re: (idm) Stockhausen vs. RDJ, Plastikman, Scanner, pemberton

From The Rare Guy
Sent Tue, May 26th 1998, 06:58

On Tuesday, 26-May-98, KaisrSolze wrote [about (idm) Stockhausen vs. RDJ,
Plastikman, Scanner, pemberton]:
>Check out this link to a 1995 Wire article
>http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jkandell/music/stock/ks_inter.html

>I think the whole thing is really funny.  Can anyone recommend some
>Stockhausen and other important 20th century European classical to me?   For
>Stockhausen, I'm under the impression that Kontakte and Hymnen are damn
>important, and that he and Boulez, Varese and Xenakis are the major European
>composers of this century...  Any help would be appreciated.

hm.. Stockhausen made a lot of early strange things... somewhat like Eno and
Jean Michel Jarre, but he was a bit different..

like there was one track that was just 3-4 minutes of white noise or
something.. I've never heard any of his stuff personally, just heard of it.

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