On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, CiM wrote:
quoted 6 lines Which brings me to your other point - about DJ'ing IDM. I'm intrigued to>
> Which brings me to your other point - about DJ'ing IDM. I'm intrigued to
> know - what do other list members think about a complete night of DJ'd IDM?
> Would it work? Would it fail? (Assuming here, that the DJ has a certain
> degree of competence).
>
I think I am finally going to have to jump into this discussion. I DJ
idm and trance/acid, though not at the same time. When I dj at one of
the local clubs I tend to play idm when I am on early in the night, and
the bar is mostly empty. I never expect people to dance, but I am always
very pleased when people get up to dance to some good idm.
example: Once I was playing Orbital and nobody was dancing, went into
Donkey Rhubarb and people actually got up to dance. Same thing happened
when I went from New Order to Balil - Parasight one night.
The lesson from this is: I usually think of idm as sit-down and
appreciate music, but you never know just what people will dance to.
As for doing a whole night of idm, I think it would be very hard. Mostly
because it can be rather difficult to follow the beat (vide Flutter or
Quoth), and the 16 year-old cokeheads in Toronto can't dance to it.
I will be able to give a much better opinion of this after March 30 when
Toronto and Transcendence actually do host a night of complete idm, with
Autechre, STC, Mark Broom, Legion of Green Men, and Mixmaster Morris.
This will undoubtedly be the biggest night for idm since
AFX/Orbital/Vapourspace. (I won't mention Moby was there;))
Phil Downey