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...of electronic music i had a mess load of cds laying around... so i got them together and put them in a cd case. This made me really think about my musical journey i have gone through over the years. It is funny to look back at all the stuff i listened to religiously back in the day, before IDM really took over. You know, i started out with the simple, mainstream electronic music: Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, Prodigy, Photek, Roni Size... i remember this was the greatest stuff on earth. I felt like the luckiest guy alive to have discovered this electronic culture... I emersed myself in it. It was just me and my only, and best friend who were into it. We would look on the net, go to record stores and just marvel in this new music. But then slowly IDM came along. I have to say that getting into IDM wasnt as blatent and amazing as this other stuff. Back then it was all new... but IDM was a taste I slowly built up to. But that said, IDM is still so much more amazing. It evokes so much emotion... but it wasnt something that oneday i just discovered... so in this sense... i kind of yern for the days of old... where it was a great discovery. I have had some moment recenlty, of being blown away by a new artist... but not with the impact of the originals... Im gonna go back and listen to some of these CDs and see if they still evoke any of the same feelings... can anyone relate? |
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hey hey can u relate |
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Oh yes,but i can go back a little bit further than you can...i'm an old man now...(croak).}:> |
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Dj Mink is still doing stuff but warp isn't interested at the moment....8( |
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what's the difference? it's all "techno" anyway, you shouldn't feel so nostalgic |
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*blink* pause *blink* |
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i still listen, but not out of nostalgia....some songs never age |
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I can relate: I remember Dr Who I remember Stationary Ark I remember Brian Eno I remember Steve Reich I remember Robert Fripp I remember Kraftwerk I remember Tangerine Dream I remember Power Corruption Lies I remember Upstairs at Erics I remember Sensoria I remember Severed Heads I remember Skinny Puppy I remember Pacific 202 I remember French Kiss I remember every tedious tweeked out sax from Guru Josh I remember Digeridoo I remember Spice ("he who controls the spice...") I remember Charlie I remember Stella I remember the MuMus I remember A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Ruled From The Center Of The Ultraworld I remember Volume 1 I remember Papua New Guinea I remember Xtal and Tha I don't remember the number of times I bought UFOrb after it was loaned out or scratched to bits I remember dancing to SlugDub at the Opera House during the Orbus Terrus tour... (parts anyways) I never felt that IDM slowly appeared in the '90s. ProgRock (King Crimson, Robert Fripp, etc.) was always highly cerebral, highly complex and structures, and Always Weird. I think IDM, or electronic composition, is more than 25 years old. I think the tools and software is catching up (slowly) to human imagination and ingenuity these days and making it more accessible. I think if it weren't for the modern video game, all electronic beats and bleeps would still be lost in sci-fi and minimalist new-age fartism, so far as pop culture is concerned. John Mills-Cockrell is unheard of still, and he was toying around with electronic gear in the early seventies for television and theatre, while the BOC boys were shovelling snow in Edmonton. There would be no BOC if there weren't no Mills-Cockrell! I don't know, I could be wrong. The catalgue of brilliant electronic music extends far back as it does sideways through our modern thicket of genres. Do some research, geek out and look through old library catalogues. And yes...I just remembered the Pocorn Song. make it go away |
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sorry, i was being unclear... i wasnt listening to electronic music from the beggining of its birth... i got into it around 1997... but what i meant by IDM slowly creeping up, was my awareness of it. Me and my friend would listen to stuff like prodigy, fat boy slim etc... and then as we went deeper into finding electronic music... we slowly came upon artists like aphex, and squarepusher, and BoC etc... and then we'd slowly grow a taste for it... so the actual formation of IDM... i dont know... because i wasnt aware of it until 1997... i was just talking about how i came to know it |
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I went to electronic music mainly with Underworld and Photek. I enjoyed a lot the first warp stuff I heard, and I remember saying 'hey ! it sounds like zelda song with drum'n'bass !' I liked electro beats even before knowing the electro/techno genres, because i loved some videogame soundtracks... in old 8-bit game with 4-track audio songs, they often tried to get rock or funk drumming pattern, but with technological restrictions, when a snare hit come, it cuts the kick hit which came just before, and it's cut by the next drum song... you see what I mean ? kick, snare and hats couldn't get superposed: it's like using frutyloops and using 'autocut' for all samples... it gives a punchy sound to these drumming part of the tracks... you now hear this in many classic idm/braindance tunes... you now, fast cutted beats... like in theold funky breackdance stuff too... don't you think so ? apart from this, first music i listened before electro is old dub and death metal (in the same period, yes !) |
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