From Brad Berger Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 14:35
From Brad Berger Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 14:35
this is actually along the lines of something that i was wanting to do that i thought of the other day...i was wanting to have old "classic" idm-ish albums (yknow - artificial intelligence, SAW1, Kraftwerk, _in pine effect_, etc.) re-reviewed, to give a feel of how these albums fit into the whole scheme of things (like that old saying "hindsight is always 20/20")....if anyone is interested, you can send your re-reviews to me at xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx and i will combine them and then post them to the list... -brad ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: (idm) 1991-92 Author: "Christopher Fahey" <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> at INTERNET Date: 6/25/98 5:20 PM Over the past few days I've been listening to a lot of circa 1991-92 electronica/IDM (Old Orb, Seefeel, Renegade Soundwave, SAW2, Artificial Intelligence, old FSOL, etc) and I thought to myself that almost none of this fantastic music used any drum-n-bass gestures at all, and none involved anything like *gag* big beat. I thought also that this stuff holds up *extremely* well over time, whereas a lot of more recent stuff even by the same artists (i.e., RDJ) gets tired for me after one or two listens. I mean, how much drum and bass/breakbeat/big beat can you listen to before it loses it's novelty? And who's doing music in the tradition the aforementioned artists were practicing in 1992 (actually, I'd say BoC is to a certain extent, and some of Squarepusher's less hectic stuff does too). What happened to melodic, dancy, trippy dub? Beat-oriented ambient? It's all a wash of plinkityplinkitychikachikaboom 180+ bpm nowadays. Don't get me wrong, I love the speed and power of hard ass dnb, but right now I'm listening to the Orb's Adventures beyond the Ultraworld and I'm thinking damn this stuff is well-crafted and melodic and enveloping and I don't hear that much anymore. -Cf ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - c h r i s t ø p h e r f ª h e y . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx 2 1 2 - 6 3 4 - 6 9 5 0 x 2 5 8 http://www.raremedium.com - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - .