From Aetehraplst Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 05:34
From Aetehraplst Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 05:34
>It seems like we get lost in the technicalities of the music on these
lists,
>sometimes. Like label names and who's who and see here how much I know.
>YO--what about the feeling? Certainly these details are essential for
>obtaining the music and thus the feeling, but it seems that these lists
>could be so much more than just a place for exchanging information.
>
>Do other people have similar experiences with this music that we all claim
>to love so much as I do? Why do you listen to the music? Why are you on
>this list, I wonder? I'm honestly very curious about other people's
>personal experiences and motivations with this music. How the hell does
it
>make you _FEEL_?
i think that the "feeling" is what drives most of the conversations,
really. and it plays a big part into what's thought of as overall "good"
and "notsogood". take, for example, the PBO 12" on skam. i doubt that
anyone on the list would honestly claim that there was a "lack of
technicality" or whatnot on the 12"... but it didn't have much feeling.
people claimed that it sounded like other skam releases... well, Bola's
Soup was really good, and it had that feeling to it. heh, so does that
make "soup" a non-skam release? i don't think so.
there are a lot of filters that are set up with most people who like idm,
and especially on this list. we've listened to a lot of music, and i think
that all of us have a sort of inborne sense of what "does it for us". ties
back to the piloerection discussion (ooh, linkage!), really. the filters
aren't bad things, and they usually include a big filter for "is it on the
radio a lot?" >:O)
so, no, i think that the technicality which is discussed has more to do
with *what* the particular artists is doing that makes it good. labels?
well, if a label tends to put out a lot of quality releases that have that
"feeling" to it - done by the artists, of course, it's usually a good label
to stick with and follow, as you're almost sure to keep finding music with
that "feeling"; when a label "goes bad" (much like milk or perhaps white
envelopes), it's is, more often than not, because the music, not
necessarily the artists, loses that feeling, which is sad, because it means
that, perhaps, the label, since it chooses, most of the time, what gets
released, is either getting more commercial, or is more interested in
money, in whatever form, over the music.
yes, that last sentence was quite long and had too much punctuation...
hmm.. just my ¥216.
likes the feeling, (ooOoOoOOOooOo)
-=aethersplat
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