Re: (idm) Re: System Error

From zimbo
Sent Fri, Aug 21st 1998, 18:39

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Sean Cooper wrote:

> just wanted to give a huge second to rowland's recommendation of System
> Error's _nothing_, on the headphone label. i'm still surprised this
> hasn't caught on amongst the idm masses...it was on my top 10 of last
> year and i still listen to it incessantly. i rate it next to hia's
> freefloating, if not higher since it's a bit more "of the moment"
> (stronger digital feel). rowland's comparison to what autechre might be
> doing if they hadn't, as greg derocher so aptly put it to me a few weeks
> back, 

> "basically lost all interest in making music per se."

while i think im going to hunt down the sytem error now, im curious about
the "lost all interest in making music.." thing.

not to keep the whole autechre thing going, but im just curious if it was
a joking comment because their stuff has gotten more abstract?  and, if
not, any justification of the comment?

i might be biased (?), because i listen to A LOT of unstructured and
"difficult" stuff..  but autchre still remains completely musical to my
ears (not saying that they are better or worse off for it, just that itd
be hard for me to argue that theyre not making music).

chris.