Re: (idm) "Only Stupid People Call it Intelligent"
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quoted 5 lines It's a monstrous error to say that house/techno/disco/dance club music is> It's a monstrous error to say that house/techno/disco/dance club music is
> somehow less intelligently created or heard than IDM, and I often suspect
> that the difference boils down to class/race/sexual preference. One could
> argue pretty convincingly that IDM = dance music for straight white middle
> class guys who can't dance.
this has been debated to death, but -- once & for all:
'intelligent' is a tag created by WARP RECORDS to distinguish a form of
techno not based on the dancefloor. eventually the term got so misused
that really i wouldn't attempt going further than calling it 'idm' &
letting people wonder at what those letters could mean.
as much as some people can't understand music outside the dancefloor, i
for one cannot understand music _inside_ the dancefloor. i don't care
about dancing, i think it looks silly, & it's definitely not part of my
culture.
dancefloor music isn't made for the _head_, it's made for the _booty_.
i don't care how easy or hard it is to create a track that goes boom
boom till your legs bleed, the only people who're going to wonder how
intelligently the track was created are fellow musicians & djs. with
idm, there's actually a concern on how it affects the 'intellectual
sense' so to speak.
as for those who see 'intelligent' as derogatory for others: well,
yeah. let's shun intelligence. what GOOD is intelligence?!? who cares
about intelligence??? let's not be stupid or intelligent, let's be
nothing at all!
& i'm back to this point: are we going to trash dance music because it
makes the body exercise & therefore improves health?! what about sick
music?! that's so derogatory!!! let's call the genre police!!!!
--
david