From Chris Fahey Sent Fri, Sep 17th 1999, 22:25
From Chris Fahey Sent Fri, Sep 17th 1999, 22:25
I've heard lots of very sophisticated dance music that probably would =
repel
most of the people on this list, music which rarely makes it out of the
clubs. I'm talking about house music with divas. In many ways lots of =
this
IDM stuff is comparatively much more commercial than some of the best, =
most
interesting underground house.=20
Yes, there's a high-profile brand of house which is unoriginal, =
retarded,
and commercial, but just cuz the "House Explosion vol 9" compilation =
CD's
they sell at tower records are bad doesn't mean that there isn't house =
out
there that would blow your socks off and make Global Goon look like an
amateur tinkerer (not hard).
Some Basic Channel or Carl Craig crosses into what I'm talking about =
(in
terms of being, at heart, house music), but is that as far towards =
house
this list will venture. Why?
It's a monstrous error to say that house/techno/disco/dance club music =
is
somehow less intelligently created or heard than IDM, and I often =
suspect
that the difference boils down to class/race/sexual preference. One =
could
argue pretty convincingly that IDM =3D dance music for straight white =
middle
class guys who can't dance. There's an entire world of dance music out =
there
which is both booty shaking and very experimental in nature, but it's =
almost
never discussed on the IDM list. It's sad - In fact, I have to rely on =
my
club-DJ friends to even expose me to this stuff.=20
Not that I'm not guilty too - in order to become an aficianado of IDM, =
all
you need is some money and an email account, but to find out about
interesting underground house you have to be pretty hardcore about your
nightlife habits and probably have to be a professional DJ. If you =
think
about it, IDM is in a way dance music's latest stab at bringing =
underground
electronic dance music out of the exclusive control of professional DJs =
and
into our homes and offices, whereas underground house is still an =
arcane
knowledge to which access is extremely difficult. IDM fans buy records =
and
CDs, while house fans go to clubs, listen, and dance.
Sometimes I think this list needs to be a little more house-broken, so =
to
speak.=20
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