From The Rare Guy Sent Mon, May 4th 1998, 17:31
From The Rare Guy Sent Mon, May 4th 1998, 17:31
On Monday, 04-May-98, Greg Clow wrote [about (idm) (fwd) Village Voice article
about IDM music in America...]:
> This is the reverse of the usual story we get told, about Detroit
> techno pioneers who, like generations of jazz musicians before
> them, have to go to Europe to get paid. But there's evidence that
> Morris is right: in places like Oakland, Miami, and Madison,
> Wisconsin, indie labels launched from someone's bedroom are
> putting out vinyl 12-inches in the Warp-Rephlex mode. But
> unlike Squarepusher or Plug, most seem less interested in taking
> the piss than in updating the serious-minded American
> tricksterism of Harry Partch and Conlon Nancarrow. In one of
> those annoying ironies that muddies the issue, the first CD
> evidence of this has arrived from across the Atlantic, in the form
> of Altered States of America (Lo Recordings), a compilation
> featuring 12 examples of U.S. (and, cheating a bit, Canadian)
> marginalectronica.
man I need to go there.. no one in here is interested in the least at
releasing IDM type stuff, they tell me it won't sell or that at least it
won't sell on vinyl.
anyway.. This was a pretty good article.. has a lot of good info in it
(unlike most other electronica-next-big-thing-read-all-about-it articles
that mainly discuss the prodigy and the chemical bros.
does anyone have the addresses for all the labels mentioned in there?
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