From Bill Wright Sent Mon, Mar 1st 1999, 05:32
I suppose this has nothing to do with IDM at all, except that I can *definitely* see people liking this that like IDM type stuff, but the most recent Ativin ("German Water", on Polyvinyl) and Don Caballero ("What Burns Never Returns", on Touch&Go) releases do some insane stuff with hardly any, if any, 4/4 signatures. They do it all with bass guitars, guitars, and standards drums, so that's why it is not IDM. However, some of the songs could definitely fit in to a IDM set, both these albums are as complex and evocative as anything an artist on this list done...(and thankfully, they have both zilch vocals) At 11:03 PM 2/28/99 -0600, lazlo wrote: >Amon Tobin did a rabid 5/4 cut on Permutation, "Sordid." Blame's "360 >Click" is in 7/8, and then there's Laika (who don't really fall into this >group of musicians)--they're infamous for going against 4/4. > >As for Autechre, they experimented with "no repetitive beats" on "Flutter" >in 1994 as a means of protest against the CJB. Weird fun shit that >actually mixed well into Warp's "Blech" comp. > >They're rare, but not impossible to find. The further people dig into jazz >roots, the more you'll begin to see it on the scene. > >laz > >Tomas Jirku wrote: > >> how rare is a non-4/4 time signature in IDM/techno? if anyone knows of >> any songs with odd time signatures, please tell! >> i would think autechre would experiment in this area but i can't recall >> if any of their songs do deviate from 4/4. >> >> tomas > >Attachment Converted: "c:\windows\desktop\eudora\eudora\attach\muziq14.vcf" > bill wright xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx <http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~wwright>