From solenoid Sent Sun, Jul 18th 1999, 21:04
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Konstantin Minko wrote: Re: (idm) Not IDM in idm land. > edges and my opinion on some non-idm artists may differ with yours. > > I would really like to see what you all like. I listen to my vinyl record collection pretty evenly by the amount I have, except I have been listenning to much less reggae and new wave and more zydeco and radio/spokenword than this suggests: Solenoid's vinyl record collection breakdown -------------------------------------------- 300 - 78-86 newwave/romo/darkwave - if it has a synth i have/had/know it 90 - IDM - good stuff, no crap 90 - spoken word/readings by authors - caedmon label of 60's-70's 80 - 70's funk (barkays, brown, p/funk, stax) 80 - sound effects and ambiences 80 - bebop - coltrane, henderson, mulligan, brubeck, mingus 80 - kids recs (cartoon, tv show, a few disney) 60 - breakbeat/hip-hop-derivative-breaks 60 - pop vocalists from 40's thru 70's (sinatra, lee, etc) 70 - "tiki/lounge" - "island jazz", lyman, denney 70 - 70's dub - linval thompson, scientist, black ark, DUB 70 - electro - kraftwerk, twilight 22, early electro 70 - 70's abstract jazz/+ fusion (davis, weather r, roswell rudd, roach) 50 - ambient - eno, sky label, laraaji, etc 50 - weird electronic - beyond idm - mostly nonrhythmic mus concrete 50 - straight techno + detroit techno and minimal 4/4 non-shuffle 50 - early jazz - django, goodman, armstrong 40 - Academic electronics - Cage, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Ussachevsky(sp?) 40 - rap - hip-hop - breaks/scratch 40 - c&w - Tennessee E Ford, J Cash, Horton, merle h, buck owens, glenc 40 - radio drama programs from 30's thru 50's 40 - house - acid house - chicago trax 40 - soundtracks - outland, exorcist, liq sky, etc 20 - old punk - sham 69, 999, buzzcocks, magazine, etc etc 30 - leg pink dots 20 - ska - trojan, early studio 1 - desmond dekker, etc 20 - reggae - burning spear, black uhuru, you know--the good stuff.. 20 - trad. India - ali akbar khan, ravi, etc 20 - the fall 30 - 80's industrial - swans, frontline a, feotus 30 - American noise - Psyclones, Yeast Culture, Crawl Unit, arch office 10 - Japanese noise - Merzbow, Masonna, Gov't Alpha 30 - mellow weird post-punk - soft verdict, penguin cafe orch 20 - durutti column 20 - thelonious monk 20 - latin big band (perez prado mostly) 20 - psyche/garage, turtles, lemon pipers, 13th floor elev 30 - motown, aretha, supremes, gaye, etc 25 - Bali, gamelan, Ceylonese 30 - trad. Japanese musicks 5 - 90's r&b 10 - African trad music 10 - modern african music (fela kuti!) 5 - chinese operas 30 - Sesame Str 15 - peggy lee 10 - bent fabric 5 - Louisianna Zydeco - Queen Ida, Clifton Chartier (excellent) 1 - musical The Sound of Music hmm, no Goa-trance, no klezmer, and I'm not listing a bunch of one-of's like trad finnish music, trad this and that, kazoo orchestra, etc Solenoid