Re: rabit's Halcyon Veil label releases City

From Rjyan Kidwell
Sent Mon, Oct 9th 2017, 16:20

while idm "austerity" (i think "disassociation" might be a better
descriptor?) certainly does have an extra-musical appeal, it seems
like a broader range of listener feelings can be projected on that
landscape of restraint than you can fit over the hyper-specific
ambitious-online-Self-builder thing that Arca is currently doing.

to be real general, i think Strong Feelings of ALienation are a big
impetus for both Arca and Ae, but there's a self-obsessed
quest-for-validation in the former and a craft-obsessed
quest-for-transcendence in the latter. makes sense that they wouldnt
necessarily appeal to all the same folks...

On 10/9/17, Chris Taylor <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> as if the austerity of most idm and techno doesn't have it's
> own extra-musical appeal
>
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Clint Anderson <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
>> i mean, i DID listen to his first album several times and i just felt
>> like, he had the general concept of the kind of music he was doing but it
>> seemed more forced and process oriented than how do i say, natural and
>> soulful like the halcyon veil stuff in general
>>
>>
>> Clint Anderson
>> Systems Engineer
>> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Chris Norton <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I also feel like his sexuality is extremely overplayed -I remember at
>>> Day
>>> for Night last year meeting several people who were into Arca
>>>  more for his image and than his music. They would just talk about how
>>> they loved his open sexuality/social media but wouldn't or couldn't
>>> discuss
>>> the actual art he has produced.
>>>
>>>>
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