Re: (idm) Re: 1991-92

From Jon Drukman
Sent Fri, Jun 26th 1998, 18:15

Greg Earle wrote:
> Oh, irony of ironies!  To see Jon post this on the day he officially crosses
> the portals into grumpy old man-hood ... hehehehe
> 
> (Happy 30th, Jon.  We love ya.)
> 
>         - Greg
> 
> P.S. Advice: Never post your birthday to mailing lists that are archived  :D

hmm, i wonder what mailing list you found that on.  however, my birthday
is tomorrow, june 27.  yes, i will be 30.  yes, everything they say
about turning 30 is true.

argh.

thanks for the kind thoughts anyway.

first records:

the first one i really remember going nuts about as a kid was Frank
Zappa's "Zappa Mothers Roxy & Elsewhere".  my cousin left it at our
house and i just played the hell out of it.  never mind that i had no
clue what a "penguin in bondage" was or that i had no idea what "i am
not a crook" referred to.  i was only 8 years old.  i think everybody
should get exposed to zappa at age 8.

as for electronics, i was listening to jarre and tangerine dream and
walter carlos when i was around 12 or so.  loved that stuff.  i always
loved electronic sounds.  i remember playing the electronic part of the
close encounters soundtrack (when the mothership is communicating with
the humans) over and over again.

first roots-of-idm album i got was "who's afraid of the art of noise"
(high five to adam w.). that was one of those experiences where you just
go "what the fuck" and the world is never the same again.  i think the
next band that really did that to me was skinny puppy in the late 80's. 
the whole industrial scene got me interested in a number of noteworthy
proto-idm-type acts: meat beat, tackhead, severed heads.  from there it
was a hop skip and a jump to acid house (bomb the bass, sexpress), new
beat (anybody remember THAT?), early rave techno (t-99, altern-8, other
bands with hyphenated numbers in their names), and so forth.  now i'll
listen to just about anything that doesn't have a human drummer
involved.
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Jon Drukman                                            xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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