From Tim Finney Sent Sun, Aug 8th 1999, 02:48
From Tim Finney Sent Sun, Aug 8th 1999, 02:48
---------- >From: xxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx (idm-digest) >To: xxx-xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >Subject: idm-digest V2 #807 >Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 9:12 AM > >>step 1 - people play guitar. step 2 - people play people playing guitar on >>the sampler. this is post rock. > > so the young gods were post-rock? i had no idea. Sure. After all, weren't they a huge influence on Disco Inferno's D.I. Go Pop, the main album album investigated in that original post-rock thinkpiece by Simon Reynolds back in '94? I'd say other formative influences on those early post-rock bands would be the swirling noise of the My Bloody Valentine, the sonic experimentalism of A.R. Kane etc. etc. Speaking of which, is it just me or is all that first generation UK post-rock just miles ahead of the current math-rock variant? I mean, classic albums like "D.I. Go Pop", "Hex", "Quique"... all forged new styles rather than just mashing up old ones. And they were much closer to an IDM aesthetic in a way, pushing rock into territories closer to dance music eg. Seefeel mixing MBV with Aphex/The Orb etc. etc. Tim