On Thursday, 17-Jul-97, alalan@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote [about Re: (idm) Chem
B]:
quoted 9 lines that its just something you feel...if i listen to something, and>that its just something you feel...if i listen to something, and
>think it sounds idm'ish(i can't explain...its hard to put into words)
>and i discuss it here, i'm almost always right. Which is how everyone
>else does it as well. I mean, you can't tell me you sit down with a
>cd and go through a list of elements of music that are and aren't
>idm, before posting, eh? And by the way, idm is in a LARGE growth and
>development period, as it is relatively new as a genre, so to
>simplify idm into what IS and ISN'T idm based on(what? what DO you
>base the fact that Chem Bros aren't idm on?) certain criteria is to
I can try to explain..
IDM is something which sounds like it is from around 200 years in the
future. It often sounds like a soundtrack to some stellar movie, no matter
what style, and I'm not talking ambient mind you, but then the term
'intelligent' directly relates to ambience, for example: intelligent
jungle/drum'n'bass = jungle/drum'n'bass that's got an atmospheric and cosmic
quality.
When I listen to the classic IDM stuff like Ae: Incunabula or SAW85-92 or
the Dot stuff.. I hear stuff that is,for sure, intelligent dance music.
When I listen to stuff like the Prodigy, a track which is nothing but some
hard metal sounding stuff that repeats on to infinity and keeps saying
"smack my bitch up ! smack my bitch up !" with no variance whatsoever.. that
is not IDM. Ru Paul, is not IDM either, although it's nothing like the
Prodigy, more like euro-cheese at 180bpm.
at least this is what I thought of it.. If I'm correct, it's actually what
you're trying to say that you cannot explain, you just know when something's
IDM.. when you hear it, you know, sometimes even if you don't know what IDM
is... but it also depends on the person..
I base my opinion (fact? I don't believe IDM has been established on such a
concrete base for anything to be IDM by fact.) that Chemical Bros. are not
IDM that imo they are electronic rock'n'roll. they use a little bit of
things from electronic dance music and some hip hop influences, etc. but
imo, the only thing tieing them to electronic dance music is the fact that
they use electronics.
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