From s.f.w.d. Sent Sun, Jun 28th 1998, 18:24
From s.f.w.d. Sent Sun, Jun 28th 1998, 18:24
> On Sunday, 28-Jun-98, daniel wrote [about (idm) back in my day...]: > >you have heard of. Sure warp is putting out some good stuff. Sure skam > >is putting out some good stuff. But the ground breaking material isn't on > >those labels. Check out a-musik, suction and rastermusic for example. > > I highly disagree. Warp's AI comps were the shit, are the shit, and will > remain THEE shit until the end of time. granted warp hasn't had many > groundbreaking releases lately. Unless you call the weird microphone-hiss > amplified and distorted which is MC: Pin Skeeling groundbreaking. It may be, > I don't know. I don't think so though. I think that the point was is that, as of late, Warp hasn't been groundbreaking... one of favorite Warp releases (sort of recent) was the Phoenecia, but when it comes down to it, it's nothing new. Great release, still the same, simply wasn't really the point. > > >of IDM. Some of the better releases can be found in genres like > >industrial and house. Check out glassgow underground. Sure it is house > > I disagree.. There are some great releases in the house dept.. and some may > be better, worse who knows.. but I certainly wouldn't generalise that out of > house vs. IDM house wins.. no way in hell.. but there is house that does > rock.. The track "sensual enjoyments" on Sven Vath's new album I consider > damn well brilliant, for example. Again, I think the point was sort of missed... i don't think a generalizaion was being made that house is better than idm or that the genre has more releases that are better, i think that its just being pointed out that alot of people simply don't explore the other genres and thus miss quite a few great releases that happen to be labeled as house or industrial. I used to be into the industrial scene quite a bit til this aweful guitar sound took it over... but i'm damn glad i didn't miss download, scar tissue and it blew my mind when i first heard that not breathing was signed (especially blew my mind that invisble signed! hehehe small change of pace there =) Anyhow, if we look beyond what we normally label 'idm' (ie the skams, warps, etc) there's some great music that could probably hold up next to it nicely... Hell, the most recent material from the VVM camp (CV[ev]'s Chart Runners) definately finds itself far outside what we would deem 'idm' at moments.... Just my two cents.... btw - i hink all those / and \ look hella cool... course, i have too much time on my hands and hang out with six and seven year olds so.... ^xxxx@xxxxx.xxx^ [icq: 12645306] http://www.sonic.net/~brap/ [blackdog][v/vm][jamesbernarddiscography]...etc etc etc sfwd.dyn.ml.org [occasional web.irc.ftp.etc]]] chris g. 1547 boston court #7, santa rosa, ca 95405