From Matthew Korfhage Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 00:35
From Matthew Korfhage Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 00:35
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Alex Reynolds wrote: > Do you honestly believe that more than a handful of people outside of the > list know who Autechre are or what IDM stands for? Might be news to some of you, but ever since Matador and nothing have been picking up on electronic artists due to the dearth of interesting rock on either label right now (Cat Power happily excepted), autechre, plaid, BoC, burger/ink, squarepusher and assorted others have been charting quite well on CMJ (College Music journal, sort of like Billboard for college radio) thanks very much. Meaning: a good number of warp artists are known by the large swath of college radio listeners who may very well be only casually or peripherally interested. The inner sanctum has been broken-- IDM is not very obscure anymore. But then, who cares. The shows aren't ruined anyway, since most Americans have such a fetish about live instrumental performances they wouldn't go to an IDM show unless it's got giant dancing/fucking day-glo teddy bears. But don't be thinking this list comprises more than a small percentage of Autechre buyers-- possibly just some of the more rabid ones, from what I've seen. Trust it: The kids are all right. M. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's up.