From: Sim David ()
Date: May 4, 2008
Subject:
RE: AFX @ Coachella
> seriously tho, what do you people want him to play? unreleased autechre
> tracks? conduct a 3 hour djset comprising of his newest
> supercollider/maxmsp/reaktor ensembles? do a little live PD as his djset?
>
> "i am offended. he didnt play music that was IDM enough"...
Seriously, I thought IDM was motivated by a spirit of open mindedness and eclecticism and a distaste for 'genre boundaries' and limitations. But when someone who gets a lot of respect from the IDM community as a pioneer with little respect for genre or convention plays a set incorporating techno and (gasp!) hip hop tunes that he likes (and lets ignore for the moment how much IDM there'd even be if it hadn't had hip hop and techno to nick ideas and techniques from) people are up in arms that he's not conforming to their conservative expectations of what an 'IDM artist' should be playing.
ffs, you'd think people would show him the respect of trying to see what he's doing with it and why he's into it, rather than writing it off as 'oh he's playing hip hop, how awfully boring.'
David
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