STOP that indie stuff

[chino]

in a street market, far my house, there is an old guy who sells new/used/burned indie albums. He has the most oustanding collection I've ever seen, from Belle and Sebastian to any odd spaniard group (well not that much :p). I mean all Matador, Elefant, subpop... records stuff.

Here comes something interesting:
- "hey fella, how does this CD sounds like" - I ask.
- "you know like yo la tengo stuff" - answers.
- "how about this one" I replied
- "just like the same, with le tigre influences" - answers this guy
- "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ?????????? " - my expression is like what the fuck?

you got the point, MOST of the indie stuff is only reciclying itself. I love indie, country, folk, songwriters and so on... but how many of those new albums deserve to be in the place they are. So many new groups, albums, subgenres, labels...

(by the way, I can't fucking STOP listening "in the back seat" from Arcade Fire) :p

[lukeyd]

well thats true, artists will always be influenced by music that has come before. the same can most definately be said of electronic music.

the only way you could get a musician to release stuff unlike anything heard before, would be to cut them off from any other music for their entire life, which although an interesting experiment, is a futile wish.

[Strangelet]

Its not that they recycle music so much that's the problem. Its that they do it in that tongue in cheek way. Like check it out we're doing iron maiden riffs isn't that like witty or what? kind of stuff. Whoa and here's what Ian Curtis would sound like if he were on prozac. Its more a nod and a smirk kind of a theft than a sincere homage and that kind of bugs me.

Yeah it got pretty hard to disitnguish one electronic artist from another as the recording industry got more and more saturated but not nearly as fast as I think indie is getting quickly monochromatic.

[Future Proof]

the only way you could get a musician to release stuff unlike anything heard before, would be to cut them off from any other music for their entire life, which although an interesting experiment, is a futile wish.

Actually, RDJ (Aphex Twin) has claimed that by the time he started making electronic music that he'd had little to no exposure to any music of any kind. Then again we're talking about RDJ here, but if that's true...

[chino]

"this souns like if Dylan'd met the SuperImposers"