From The Rare Guy Sent Sat, Jun 20th 1998, 21:29
From The Rare Guy Sent Sat, Jun 20th 1998, 21:29
On Saturday, 20-Jun-98, rod a lester wrote [about (idm) the "ME" in "IDM"]:
>d/n't any of y/u out there tell me that a small % of y/ur soul doesn't
>listen 2 this music b/c U know that the majority of people out there
>have never even heard of it. face it //// its an ego thing. Uall want 2 B
>different and Unique //// and what do U doo // U join a forum where there
>R others like U. Just when U were going 2 B the only guy on the block
>with "THE NEW AE 10 INCH (LIMITED TO 15 COPIES, OOOO LA LA!)", U go
>and start hanging out with the other 14 people that own it. way 2 go
>team. i'm not saying that its a bad thing /// i mean look, i'm here
>aren't i? i just mean to say that with 900+ members U all can't B that
>unique or special. its a good thing we live all over the world b/c if
>we all lived 2 gether we would kill each other. perhaps this all in my
>mind. yah fuck it. i'm just going 2 pretend i didn't say anything. U
>probably didn't want 2 hear that anyway. here....just go back 2 the
>b-ginning
>and don't read it.yah... i'm just another one of U people.
well I must say that it's quite lonely when you are the only person who
listens to this kind of music and everyone else thinks it's crap.
I maybe am alone here but I listen to IDM coz I like it, I don't give a piss
about whether it's unique or anything else.. keep in mind that's what spawns
the countless 14 year olds who do all sorts of stupid shit thinking they're
unique and "cool."
are we like them? I'm certainly not.. I listen to music like Aphex Twin and
BoC, etc. because I think it's beautiful. Of course there's a certain thing
with tracks like Fantasia and AB2 tracks, but the thing that attracted me to
Aphex Twin (which started me liking this type of music) and Autechre is
beauty.. because of tracks like Acrid Avid Jamshred, Analogue Bubblebath,
Alberto Balsalm, Basscadet (beaumont hannant mix) and others of this nature
that I didn't know at the time like Flim, On the Romance Tip, and Sloth.
(Flim hadn't come out yet heh).
There's not one ounce in my being that likes this music because no one else
does, and I dislike bands like Prodigy and Chemical Bros. because I think
they made shit music, and that's my opinion.. Although I wouldn't go to
someone who likes them and say "prodigy sucks and you suck for liking them."
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