From Blag Sent Tue, Jun 15th 1999, 07:50
From Blag Sent Tue, Jun 15th 1999, 07:50
> Kent said: > >In the unconfirmed rumor department, Rich Devine is supposed to have > >stuff coming out on Warp records soon. On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, John wrote: > Wishing Warp would put some of their vast cash reserves into some untried > fresh talent for once. I think they should cut that jerk-o Greg Eden loose and use his 6 figure salary to release several Richard Devine records. The Richard Devine 12" is one of the absolute best IDM things I've ever heard in my life (ranking up there with a bunch of *ahem* autechre tracks, and that Estherman/Fakesch 'aleph' thing, the Blitter v Hrvatski 'Nuclear Cats' track that's better than Sabbath at 78 speed, and well, a few other things) and it REALLY bothers me tht there isn't anything else by him. Argh. In other news, Kiya brought up something this weekend that I've been thinking about a bit; "Where's the melody in these new IDM 12"s? They all sound the same now." to which I replied (with my typical rapier wit) "Yeah, no shit, huh?" He turned me on to all of this stuff in the first place a couple of years ago (thanks Kiya :P) and at the time both of us were frequent visitors to 'THE TEMPLE OF DRILLNBASS' and we both listened to almost exclusively the hawd koa straight up I - D - M shit, you know (well, it's *all* the IDM I had, I think Kiya probably had a few Photek CDs, hehe) and now I'm more excited by what I would have considered to be "cheesy techno" at the time. (i.e. Cylob, mat101, etc) The real clincher was when he put on "High Scores" and even though it sounded like "Beat It" it really put some things into perspective, as it wasn't that intense rhythmically or anything, but it's just fucking phat, you know? Even the first Squarepusher record had some dope melodies going on over the chaos, you know? I don't know if it's me, but it just seems like I've heard so much weird drum programming that I've become numb to it or something, and it just doesn't speak to me anymore. The "Amen" thread adds more fuel to my fire, as I don't mind the Amen break at all, (unless it's a totally wack Peshay track or something :) I'd rather hear a flanged-3bar-amen track than yet still one more of the numerous I-can-program-this-this-drum-machine-like-a-software-engineer-on-crack tracks (I don't think I need to name any names.) Coming back full circle, Richard Devine is truly one of the great artists of the IDM genre because he covers all of the bases, both rhythmically and melodically, and it's really a shame for all of us that he's so under-recorded (which may or may not be Warp's fault, but either way) Whew. I think in 20 years, house will be the new northern soul, there's a lot of records, they all sound the same, and a bunch of them are rare. Anyone else agree? :) .Bil. ich|bin|ein|kopieier np:rolling stones:exile on main st