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From: bsanders@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Barry Sanders)
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 22:07:08 -0500
Subject: Can Dumb People Enjoy IDM, Too?
Brian (suddenly nostalgic for email addresses with more than one dot in
them)
On Thu, 5 May 2022, Eric Sorenson wrote:
quoted 26 lines Happy 30th birthday to this conversation.
> Happy 30th birthday to this conversation.
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> On May 5, 2022, at 10:33 AM, Kahgyt <khoogyra@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I thought IDM being labelled Intelligent Dance Music was a misnomer and that most in the community agreed it was a toxic way to view the art. As far as I'm concerned IDM is
> just that, and doesn't translate to anything else.
> To me IDM is basically jazz electronica, as in, people who were often classically trained and/or understood music theory and made electronica.
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> On Tue., May 3, 2022, 9:24 a.m. Rjyan Kidwell, <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh man is somebody gonna tell her about tigerbeat6
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> On Tue, May 3, 2022, 6:49 AM Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Funnily, she doesn't seem to realise that her music genre might not exist if IDM hadn't been there in the first place (out of the country).
> Unless that is (more likely) some poor polemic attempt in order to get her music heard.
> I don't blame her, however i think she should try to look above instead.
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> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 2:27 AM David Seruyange <g3scom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reference: https://twitter.com/lilbadsnacks/status/1521155495419162626
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> I thought it was called "Happy Hardcore".
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> - David
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