Re: (idm) I want some Lexaunculpt.

From zimbo
Sent Tue, Jan 12th 1999, 16:45

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 xxxxx@xxx.xxx wrote:

> 
> In a message dated 1/11/99 11:50:15 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >With all the talk about Lexaunculpt on here, I'm anxious to actually hear
> >something.  Is the best 12" of the year available mailorder?  Bentcrayon
> >didn't list it and Modernmusic doesn't seem to be working right.. it loads
> >the first page but there are no links off of it.  So, like, where can I buy
> it?
>         I won't mind talking about lexanculpt once I've actually heard his music, but
> until then it's pointless. I suppose it was bound to happen eventually on this
> list though. We've reached the peak of undergroundness: "My favorite artist is
> sooo underground that he doesn't even have any records that you can get."

with this logic we should stop posting about the mask series.


but, really, in this case..
it has NOTHING to do with being underground or mainstream.

everyone i know who has heard lexaunculpt and has liked the music really
could give a rats ass about if if its underground or not. besides, fact
is, alex
does have stuff online, there are cdrs floating around, there WAS a 12"
out on isophlux (it won in the idm lists poll) -- hell, i see it on online
radio play lists all the time.

its just easier for us to comment and enjoy it and be excited about it
because we can hear it live and often around here.

how many times do i read on this list about autechre radio shows on cdr?
or the mask series?  or some remix by aphex by curve? 

this is all rare and hard to find stuff.. yet, somehow, folks still talk
about it?  so why is this okay, but talking about a smaller artist who is
mindblowing to many people is not?

i hate to keep arguing this, but the whole "underground vs mainstream"
thing is silly.



blahblahblah..

OKAY.
enough of that.
because really, its all about ryoji ikeda anyway.

check out the 'space/time' 2 x 3" cd.  

chris.