I tend to think of "Intelligent Dance Music" as a term that strictly
applies to the music itself and not to the people that listen to it. I
mean, duh. I don't even have a college degree!
So imagine a genre entirely comprised of recordings that think for
themselves and illustrate their disdain for us fleshy mortals by being
generally inaccessible except to a peculiar community of argumentative
and opinionated people with strange beards and weird taste in cars/snack
food/album covers.
Artists have always talked about how the sculpture is already in the
stone before they even begin chipping away, or how the painting is on
the canvas before a brush has been dipped in paint- they just
materialize out of the ether an image, or a sound, or a shape that
was/is/and always will be there. Muses are immortal, we are not.
Perhaps the mechanization of the music-making process (and the resulting
higher frequency of 'happy accidents' that have always plagued people
trying to be willfully creative) has finally resulted in music that more
or les composes itself, with the occasional bit of guidance or intent
being applied by glorified mastering engineers that we on this list
label 'musicians'.
I mean, who's to say what the difference is between an 808 misfiring on
random fill and Taylor Deupree carefully tuning a .25 sec loop?
Certainly not this jaded crowd.
Ghost in the machine, man. It's like the glowing car in Repo Man. You
just get in and it takes you places.
So it's the music that's elitist. Don't blame yourself. You're just
another victim.
Don't have any idea what 'hypno' is, except to venture that it's a
variation on what I just rambled on about above, possibly involving less
intelligent machinery as opposed to, say, PowerBooks.
Tom
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