From -- Sent Fri, Jul 3rd 1998, 19:35
Interesting. Why the upsurge of nostalgia? anyhow, I like this first records thing, heres mine. First purchase: 1987 or 88, bought "the best of OMD" on tape. That new tape smell still fascinates me. First vinyl: Mothers Day 198, bought Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts" w/Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders remix. First CD: 1989, The Cure's "Fascination Street" cd5 and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" cd5. First IDM: Well, I tend to look at syth-pop as an early form of IDM but for those of you who don't then theres 808State's EX:EL which I bought on tape because it had Bernard Sumner of New Order and Bjork on it. 808State actually does date back to about 1984 or so when Graham Massey was in a group call Biting Tongues on Factory Records. Anyhow, there was 808 and then industrial and then a backlash to what became known as TECHNO (which I still hate) and then back to post-punk where I wandered around for a few years and then came "Protection" by Massive Attack which brought me back, there was trip-hop and acid jazz and then came Blech in NYC. First IDM vinyl: FreeForm Prawl 1500 vinyl, 500 CDs, 200 tapes and 11 years later.