Cerebral? Hey! That's ME! WOO HOO, I'm a celebrity! Now people on
the list can shit on my like they do to that COIL guy.
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"Like David said in the 23rd Psalm, 'Though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death.' See, nobody say, 'Hey, man, let's go shoppin' in
the valley of the shadow of death! Let's go buy a condo in the valley of
the shadow of death!'"
-- Mr. T
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Josh Brown wrote:
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> from http://www.audiogalaxy.com/pages/dept.php?id=1&
>
> Are YOU Smart Enough?
>
> As the electronic subgenre known as Intelligent Dance Music becomes more
> and more popular, it also becomes more and more clear that the music?s
> name isn?t exactly perfect. First, it implies that other types of dance
> music are just not, well, intelligent . Second, is Aphex Twin even close
> to being dance music? And third, what exactly does it mean? This last
> can apply to any classification from Big Beat to (especially) Trance,
> but the question seems to become overwhelming when applied to IDM.
>
> Basically, it seems that IDM applies to music that:
> a) Uses Weird Sound. odd, noisy, alienating and obscure samples.
> Squelched beats, jagged synth lines, static washes, electrical shorts.
> b) Defies rhythmic convention. Most good IDM draws from harsh jungle or
> arrythmic ambient drift, and throws in plenty of curves: sudden starts,
> stops, and odd changes. It?s like electronic Free Jazz.
> c) Presents an Academic Image. All good IDM artists will either refuse
> to be photographed, use building blueprints as album art, call
> themselves Cerebral without irony, or claim to build all their own
> synthesizers. From scratch.
> d) Can?t be danced to. Unless you do the Robot.
>
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