From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Mar 16th 1999, 22:49
From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Mar 16th 1999, 22:49
Hey! I like Jega! There's no reason to shit on a guy just because you don't like "Pitbull" or "Intron.ix". Jega displays plenty of the requisite IDM cleverness on nearly every other track on the album. Just because the styles that musicians like Bola and Jega are drawing from aren't as cool to you doesn't mean that they deserve such a ridiculous putdwon to their artistic integrity. Every producer discussed on this list draws their stylistic ethos from somebody or something else. Autechre were hip-hop heads to begin with, as were many early IDM artists. Now we're moving into the second decade of the "techno age" and beginning to see a lot of artists who got their inspirational beginnings from techno and industrial music itself, creating what some might call 'musical inbreeding' and others (me) might call 'meta-IDM', IDM which derives from and/or expands on IDM itself. Jega and Bola aren't breaking any new musical boundaries. They make music that I, themselves, and others think is good. So it doesn't please everybody; It's not intrinsically poor or a stupid excuse for IDM. Please quit calling it that. And yes, I think we do still need to put "just my opinion"-type disclaimers on the end of our posts around here, because I get the impression that some people think it IS more than just their simple opinion., say, a universl law or something. Tom