Re: (idm) pooey on autechre..

From Dominick Winters
Sent Mon, Oct 18th 1999, 09:35

Sorry, just to confirm, the BoC is not being released this year, more like
next spring.


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From: david turgeon <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: Tom Millar <xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
Cc: <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: (idm) pooey on autechre..


> > No offense, in fact after listening to ep7 four or five times I'd offer
> > support to your reticence, but I thought I'd just point it out. Shall we
make
> > pledges now to not buy the new Boards Of Canada album coming out in
December,
> > just so we can be different?
>
> actually, yes.  there are many more interesting albums to buy, in my
> humble & easily dismissable opinion.  all of which get far less good
> press than they deserve, while decent idm acts like boards of canada or
> say bola get so overhyped they actually obscure other good music which
> doesn't live by said hype.
>
> as a side note: supporting the same acts over & over regardless of what
> they do just puts the entire music scene in stagnation & forces new
> artists to imitate the 'current sound' to get a piece of hype
> themselves.  that's what you get from buying ae records out of habit,
> rather than because you really like them.
>
> ~ david
>