Magic and Music: Izzet (Blue-Red)

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I'm proud of the Izzet list for its nuance. Izzet music is misunderstood, much like the guild itself. While the guild appeared outwardly to be insane geniuses, they had many highly competent fellows in there; Chronarchs, Dragonauts, and Niv-Mizzet all knew exactly what they were doing and were brutal to deal with. It's the same with their music. Oh, you could say that a bunch of weird techno for 70 minutes could count as a guild album, but that's not really how it works either. The Izzet were passionate about knowledge and loved to express it in whatever way was available. The Izzet loved knowledge for its own sake. In that vein, their music should be extraverted, in-your-face blue. "We have technology and this song is cool because it's complex and technological." That leaves room for the occasional oddity, but extraverted bluism is what should predominate, and that doesn't have to be kitschy or unsettling.

BT early in his career was green/white/blue. Now he's red/white/blue. If you know much of his career, it will show you the competent side of red-blue that I think best represents Izzet. Boards of Canada's Geogaddi album is about as blue-red as it comes, with shades of green.

BT - Orbitus Teranium
Thomas Fehlmann - I Wanna Be a Fishy
Underworld - Cowgirl
Aphex Twin - Polynomial-C
Cardamar - Tears of a Man Who Never Cried
Underworld - Puppies
Boards of Canada - Dandelion --> 1969
Underworld - Deep Arch
The Orb - A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld