Re: Li'l whippersnapper! [t.m.f.k.a. Re: (idm) Infiltration]

From GD
Sent Sun, Apr 26th 1998, 15:28

Andrew Scott Wells wrote:

>     Well! Now we got sixteen-year-olds buyin' imports. Boy, when I was your
> age, there was no IDM! Ya know what I had to listen to? The Cure and Depeche
> Mode; that's all there was, and I was thankful, dagnabbit! <shaking a
> decrepit twenty-six-year-old finger> Yoooooooooou don't know what it's like
> to be without good music, boy!

Back in the day there was Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, and Bomb Squad-produced releases that
had me headed in the direction of the IDM vibe, plus early eighties technopop stuff
like the Eurythmics.  IDM as it is started with "Computer World" if ya ask me...took
a while for everyone else to catch up.

GD