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offline nacmat on 2002-11-19 11:02 [#00448159]
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clozmyen ded:

en este foro hay pocas reglas, pero si te metes con la gente
es probable que te echen... no pienses que voy de policia, a
mi me da igual, pero es para que sepas como esta el tema.

eres de los pocos españoles que hay por aqui... desde
cuando te gusta aphex?


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2002-11-19 11:02 [#00448160]
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huh ey


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-11-19 11:05 [#00448163]
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i kinda like Advanced Thinking Music

is that an accepted term now?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 11:05 [#00448164]
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this is very rude..


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-19 11:08 [#00448166]
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tits, i disagree

it doenst have to be an "experiment", but the fact that
people are trying new things, maybe not form, but certainly
use of sounds in a much different way then the majority of
people have heard.

so, you dont think autechre is experimental? they arent
"experimenting" with sounds, to find an asethetic in noises
(ie confield)

the average person off the street probably hasnt heard any
electronic music before and so when they hear "BEEEP squclch
crunch noise" thy are gonna think, wow, thats pretty new,
and experimental.

at least it gives them a better idea then "techno" because
if the average person out there has heard anything
electronic, its mainstream electronic, and no where near
"IDM"



 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 11:13 [#00448170]
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yes but even a large part of the sounds used aren't that
different..

"so, you dont think autechre is experimental? they arent
"experimenting" with sounds, to find an asethetic in noises
(ie confield)"


I don't get what you're trying to say here.. you think
confield is experimental, or not..?


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2002-11-19 11:15 [#00448171]
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connars kicks my ass


 

offline nacmat on 2002-11-19 11:15 [#00448172]
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we all know autechre is experimental... I think titsworth
was saying that IDM cannot be called experimental cos not
everythin is experimental... but of course autechre most of
the time is


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 11:18 [#00448173]
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I know what titsworth was saying, I agree with him..

most of ae is pretty experimental, yeah.. imo more so than
most of afx stuff.. (uh-oh!)


 

offline clozmyen ded from ababia ahi (Saudi Arabia) on 2002-11-19 11:19 [#00448174]
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mi novia se caga en ti, me voy gracia


 

offline warpphex from lurkston, ziltyland. (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-19 11:19 [#00448175]
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I just call it all electronica .thats the coolist name
for it . dont worry what its called just enjoy it.


 

offline nacmat on 2002-11-19 11:21 [#00448176]
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yea actually I was following up to zeus but I must have
followed up your post


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 11:31 [#00448182]
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yup :)


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-19 11:40 [#00448184]
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"intelligent dance music" is lexically wrong because it
explicitly implies that the MUSIC is intelligent. Music
cannot be intelligent. Maybe it can be created in a manner
that requires intelligence by the HUMAN making it. After
listening to ep7, I'd have to agree that "intelligent" would
be fitting in a descriptive title of it's genre.
And just take away that stupid "dance" part...


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-19 11:52 [#00448191]
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yes i think autechre is experimental

but what im saying by experimental, from an outsiders point
of view, would be the use of sounds as a focus in the
music.

even the most straight forward IDM, with pery melodies and
everything, is still focusing on sound. sounds used. the way
they mess with the sounds. sounds to create emotion.

to the normal person, alls they usually hear is stuff with
melody, and chords etc.

but in electronic muisc, the focus is more on the sounds.
(not saying production... just sounds... sounds can have
emotion).

so when they hear music that is based on just sound
manipulation (and again, even most straight forward "IDM" is
true of this) it is experimental, because its new to them.
its a new idea, that sound can carry just as much emotion as
melody/harmonies.

and now i must go to class


 

offline nacmat on 2002-11-19 11:53 [#00448193]
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good point



 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-19 11:57 [#00448194]
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ugh, what a load of nonsense. Did you really have to
defacate right in the middle of two BEAUTIFUL messages by
me? Well at least they'll now appear even better in relative
comparison.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-19 11:57 [#00448195]
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dammit, that ruined the effect of my insult.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-19 11:58 [#00448197]
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whatever


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 12:02 [#00448203]
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mm.. you seem to be pretty sure thats why people think "idm"
is strange.. because it focuses on sounds.. in my opinion,
most idm doesn't even focus much on sounds themselves, more
on structure of the track.. thats why a lot of "idm" is
disappointing to me, the sounds used are too boring, to put
it bluntly..


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-11-19 12:43 [#00448245]
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well i wasn't really saying most electronic music follows
verse/chorus/verse pattern, cos most doesn't. but avoiding
that doesn't make it somehow "experimental."


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 12:52 [#00448248]
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anyone agree that the genre called IDM or Braindance has
progressed the evolution of electronic music???


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 12:52 [#00448249]
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all the "experimental" electronic music produced in the past
decade has been done before.

END


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 12:55 [#00448250]
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who has done something like Confield before? just curious


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 12:57 [#00448251]
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never heard of them


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 12:58 [#00448252]
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the answer? NOONE


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-11-19 12:59 [#00448253]
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Zeus: i think you're grossly misusing the term
"experimental." electronic music as a whole ceased to be
that in the 80s (people have been "experimenting" with
electronic music since the early 1900s). as i said before,
just cos it's "different" doesn't mean it's experimental. if
you want to give people the impression that it's really
strange compared to what they listen to, say it's strange.
but don't misrepresent it as something it's not. autechre
and squarepusher making music with new equipment is no more
experimental than R.E.M. recording an album with a new
guitar. likewise, go plastic is no more "experimental" to a
new listener than aboriginal digeridoo music is to the
uninitiated. it's just a different approach to making
music.

no matter how radical confield sounds, it's not the result
of some experiment (if it is, tell me about it because from
what i read, this is just a logical progression in their 10+
years of music making). experimental idm to me is stuff like
matmos and herbert. their tracks really ARE made from an
experimental point of view.

i know you love IDM but there are plenty of great things
about it without having to pretend it's the work of
geniuses, isolated completely from all other existing
music...


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 13:01 [#00448254]
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heard of this ? Projection Esemplastic for White Noise -
Joji Yuasa


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 13:02 [#00448255]
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heard of this? Map of 49's Dream the Two Systems of Eleven
Sets of Galactic Intervals - La Monte Young


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 13:02 [#00448256]
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or this ? Melange - Klaus Schulze


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:03 [#00448257]
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i also disagree that IDM (or whatever you call it) is
inherinently focused on individual or specific sounds;
likewise i disagree that sounds have been "ignored" by other
types of music before IDM. i mean you're ignoring the whole
concept of instrumentation (what sounds best played by
certain instruments). also, the concept of the non-melodic
"sound" in music is very old. it's centuries old, but my
favorite example is from the 60s -- listen to "machine gun"
by jimi hendrix :)


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 13:05 [#00448259]
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or this even? Spacecraft - M.E.V.

listen to these, then listen to your IDM collection, then
argue with me


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:06 [#00448260]
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i'm not saying i think confield is experimental, just that
nothing exactly like it has been done to my knowledge. i
think it's kind of silly to compare electronic music anyway
though because of the limitless possibilities inherent in
the medium; it allows for completely idiosyncratic
creations, which is why i am pretty confident that noone has
ever done anything exactly like confield before.


 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 13:08 [#00448262]
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yeah, to your knowledge, but you dont know what music
autechre listen to


 

offline nacmat on 2002-11-19 13:09 [#00448264]
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I think that autechre experiments with each ep they make...
they go step by step in their own progression towards future
music... I think that is experimenting... but, well, I agree
that its not experimental for sounding differen.... and any
tipe of music can be experimental


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:10 [#00448265]
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i'd tend to agree. confield sounds very unique to me.
however, i haven't heard any of goon's examples, so i'll
hold off on a definitive opinion.

anyway, i just wanted to say that things can be "unique" w/o
being "experimental." i think that's a grossly misused and
overused term among electronic fans. i dunno if i'd even
call merzbow experimental. it seems to be the same M.O. with
each track, but he might do some things that qualify it as
experimental (depending on what he samples, how he puts the
track together, and any ideology or subtext behind the noise
or sequence of noise tracks).


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:15 [#00448267]
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well, it's progress but it's not experimentation
necessarily. do you know what i mean? i don't think their
musical evolution with each successive ep or album is
different from the evolution followed by the beatles, or
NIN, or any artist in music whose albums sound different
from each other. i think "experimental music" should really
only apply to music where actual experimentation (such as
combining the sounds of babies laughing with cut up sounds
of ocean waves crashing) is the focus of the music.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 13:21 [#00448274]
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well I agree with you on "idm" mostly not being
experimental.

however, I still do think the biggest part of "idm" follows
the same structure (maybe not the exact verse-chorus-verse
structure, though..), with adding and substracting
percussion and melodies.


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:34 [#00448278]
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so you're trying to tell me that with 1974 technology, minus
the custom equipment of autechre, Joji Yuasa made something
that sounds exactly like Confield?! i would listen for
myself but having trouble finding anything.


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:40 [#00448285]
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it's highly doubtful. have u even heard Confield


 

offline Crocomire from plante (United States) on 2002-11-19 13:48 [#00448298]
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i looked it up. he's an old man. even if by accident it
sounds similar there's no way he would have the same culture
as younger generations like autechre, therefore his music
would not say the same thing in the same way.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-19 14:08 [#00448311]
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what the hell are you talking about!?

"therefore his music would not say the same thing in the
same way"


how did you get the idea that the above is in any way
logical?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-11-19 14:15 [#00448321]
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look, as I said, this is how Im saying it to people who dont
know anything about it. Its not nessasarilly what I beleive.


And I wouldnt use the word strange, because, to me at least,
strange seems to have a somewhat negative conotation. Maybe
its just me.

But yeah, its all about perception. If no one ever heard
anything like Polka music before, id bet it sounded
experimental. A different way of doing things from the norm.
And if the norm is what the general population listens to,
then in this perception, its experimental.

also, tits you gave the example of someone cutting up a tape
of baby voices and mixing it with waves. You said thats
experimental.

Well how about someone thinking "hmmm, what would happen if
I ran this synthesizer into this effect?" its the same
thing. Its trying something that you dont really know the
end result. I think alot of electronic music is based on
discovery.

and of course previois music hasnt ignored sounds. I didnt
say that. But its not the FOCUS. play Bachs Fugue on any
instrument, and its still Bach Fugue. You cant do this with
someone like Autechre. Even if you did play the melody on
some other instrument, it isnt what the original track was
totally about. You wouldnt get the intended effect imo. (NOT
saying that its just filler, but im saying its not the most
important aspect of the music). If you took any track from
aphex twin, or autechre, or any IDM artist, and didnt worry
about the sounds used, and used general midi, for example,
no one would like it. It would sound like absolute shit. The
stuff squarepusher does with effects and sound manipulation,
there is no equivilent to that besides effects and sound
manipulation.

and i dont think electronic music is isolated to a bunch of
geniuses. For christs sake, for someone who accusses me of
attacking you for the sake of it, you seem to throw out
some cheap shots, and just down right spiteful remarks.

You dont know me. So dont assume.



 

offline J-HOK on 2002-11-19 14:15 [#00448324]
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listen to it, then talk to me

:)


 

offline nacmat on 2002-11-19 14:18 [#00448330]
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hey my friends... its been a nice talk on music... this is
when I really enjoy this messageboard



 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-11-19 14:23 [#00448334]
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for me it is the famoust elements from several music styles,
most i call it electronic, ambient, also braindance, fast
music, deep think, music with character. i hate that IDM
thing, cuz peoples start making own stuff and just call it
IDM.. diffrent music will come up and everybody are
discussing about, what IDM really is ...


 

offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-11-19 14:30 [#00448340]
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Quote from a friend - "If you listen to techno, I want
nothing to do with you."


 

offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-11-19 14:31 [#00448342]
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I call everything I listen to music.


 

offline map from mülligen (Switzerland) on 2002-11-19 14:31 [#00448343]
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the word "techno" is miss-used today ;)


 

offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-11-19 14:32 [#00448345]
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Oh, and if someone's already said that...I skipped a lot of
the posts in this thread.


 


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