RE: (idm) music is rotten, period.

From martin burbridge
Sent Fri, Oct 23rd 1998, 19:19

irene wrote:
>
> On 23 Oct 98, James Seo wrote re: (idm) music is rotten, period.:
>
> >  Of 15 tracks, only one song - My Sound - touched me in any
> > way.
>
> YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH.
>
> Maybe it's a grower - first 2 tracks are pretty hot as well.
>
> I
> *

when i 1st heard "hard normal daddy" i hated its flashy muso jazz prog rock
wankery, just couldn't understand it. and the acidy/electro melodies seemed
somewhat ugly and lumpen compared to those sleek aphex washes. but the
rhythmn and absolute spot on-ness of those apparently wild random drum
breaks won me over. the sounds that had previously offended me became
placeholders for the dynamics of the music, and stopped being so goddam
irritatin. it is (unfortunately) mainly responsible for me being unable to
hate jazz any more.

it sounds like he's made a jazz record. on his own, w/out the
improvisational sparks that fuelled the records that influenced it. in that
respect, and as someone who was playing bass in a pub rock band, and then
spent 5 years doing acid, and d'n'b,it seems unfair to compare it to davis'
and hancock's works which came many years into their careers. its already
happened on this list and in the (don't mention the goddam) wire (again,
please). i'm going to shut up now, 'till i actually get to hear the thing,
but from the descriptions it doesn't sound like there's going to much 'idm
content' on there, so why we even talking about it?

-martin
np: bugger all, can't wait to get home.