triphop, old-school goth-rock, IDM, noise, power-tronics, etc....

[Richard Claypool]

Here we go, I feel like I'm in a time warp.

Rick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <manny at telerama.com>
To: <darkFIN6012 at psu.edu>
Cc: <pgh-goth-list at listless.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: re: triphop, old-school goth-rock, IDM, noise, power-tronics, 
etc....


> Quoting "Sc'Eric (aka darkFIN)" <darkfin6012 at yahoo.com>:
>
> This is just more  fodder for my arsenist tendency to burn down
>> the dancefloor and rebuild  it as an IDM lounge.
>
> 1) Yet, aren't you one of the people who refused to allow a group of live
> electronic/IDM artists from Pittsburgh to play in State College in 2002? 
> Or was
> that your evil clone?
>
> 2) You don't have to get rid of the dancefloor. IDM *is* danceable. That's 
> the
> point. It's 'intelligent' dance music for people who are smart enough to 
> be
> able to respond physically to things other than four-on-the-floor techno 
> beats
> (a leftover from the rave days) which still plague the G/I scene, making 
> the
> subgenre *retrogressive* even when compared to mainstream rap (the variety 
> of
> beats from artists like Dem Franchise Boyz or Twista is more exciting that
> those at a goth club!). As for how you dance to IDM - downtempo makes you
> shuffle & sway, instrumental hiphop do the headnod, electro makes you 
> break or
> do the robot, breakcore makes you jerk around or even slam. Those who have 
> been
> to IDM shows in Pittsburgh in the past 5-6 years (and the vast majority of 
> you
> have NOT checked these shows out yet) would already know this.
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