Re: (idm) REVIEW: Muziq "Royal Astronomy"

From r. kidwell
Sent Fri, Jul 30th 1999, 19:31

> But for me, the best Muziq tracks work because they're, well,
> musical.  If you can't appreciate what he's doing holistically,
> go buy some phoenicia or rich devine.  Not that I don't love
> what they're doing, but their tracks by and large have no
> emotional handle for users to listen to.  The Rich Devine
> tracks on the Ischemic compilation are all original sound designs,
> and fiendishly complex, original drum programming.  But if
> you drop it into a set of any kind of music, you'll empty
> the dancefloor faster than a neutron bomb.

ahg man, we're locking horns again, eh?
ahah.. 
anyway, i agree with you that there isn't a whole
lot of accessible emotion in Richie Devine's stuff,
or any of the schematic or chocolate industries
catalogs for that matter.  but i guess that's what
there all about... however, there are artists that
are doing music in a somewhat similar vein that DO
have a lot of emotion.  i think the best thing about
lexaunculpt's stuff is that it gets very emotional
at points.  and there's emotion all over the MAS
catalog.  Wardhax by Michael Fakesch + the B1 track
of the Swap EP are two of my favorites.. my own
tracks are a sort of fusion of the mutilated 
mechanical sample beat programming and very emotional
(and musical) melodies.  

i realize you probably weren't saying there's NO 
emotion in this strain of IDM, but i just wanted to
bring up some examples to say that it doesn't have
to be a trade off.

and as far as Think and Amen go... once again i'm
gonna have to reference Hrvatski and RKK as an
example of breathing real life into classic breaks...

 

,rj../k