I think i'm on the IDM is a mailing list not a genre team though.
Because as a genre is makes no sense. I mean...are the squarepusher
tracks here he plays bass not IDM? What about the whole Morr music
catalog? I think compared to other ways of labeling and discussing music,
IDM is inclusive of the tangents...
I definitely get what you're saying. I think of it as so many shades of
grey i guess.
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From: "Cody Tubbs (wISPdirect)" <tubbs@wispdirect.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] send in the clones
quoted 62 lines Nothing has to be limited, but IDM does have it's own elements. When
> Nothing has to be limited, but IDM does have it's own elements. When
> artists have
> all of these elements including loads that have nothing todo with the
> genre, that's
> when they sortof become something of their own. It may be nitpicky to say
> they
> aren't, but it was just too much lyrical guitar rock to me. I may be
> wrong though, I
> just distinctly remember not liking how much they sounded like the virgin
> suicide
> soundtrack that Air did. And to just push them into the idm genre because
> they have
> a bit of idm relation INSIDE of loads that's not isn't really justified,
> they might as well
> be pushed into something else. Nobody is even talking about autechre or
> aphex
> clones, I'm talking about indie/post rock bands that are using mad
> electronics now
> taking their own turn, not becoming idm, but becoming something of their
> own.
>
> -sine@IntelligentDanceMusic.com
>
> On 17 Dec 2004 at 9:47, chthonic wrote:
>
>>
>> >I'm not familiar with Air enough to say.
>> >
>> >But aesthetically I'd count M83's sound as tangential to alot of
>> IDM.
>> >
>> >They are as heavily electronic and independant-minded,
>> >which is really the only definition of IDM i can come up with.
>> >
>> >Don't mean to nitpick - I just think of IDM as being
>> >a very general thing rather than limited to autechre clones.
>>
>> that's right - you have to include all the aphex twin clones too.
>>
>> </snark>
>>
>> d.
>>
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