Re: [idm] indie killed the idm star. Long live the IDM star!
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quoted 9 lines personally, i love electronic music, i love music that uses a minimum> personally, i love electronic music, i love music that uses a minimum
> of electronics (basically the recording equipment), i love music that mixes
> and matches whatever. i admit i am a bit "over" the "standard" IDM "sound" as
> practiced by certain descendants of the biggest bands on warp. but the best
> stuff stays listenable, and new things constantly recreate from the old by
> breaking the rules and remaking their own. if IDM is simply one of many
> catch-all terms to define an ever-morphing type of electronic music, rather
> than a single genre existing during a fixed period of time, then theoretically
> it will never "die".
Again, I agree with pretty much all of this. It's kind of the reason I've tended to shout IDMiaMLnaG at every oppurtunity. Once you define IDM to be 'bands that sound quite a lot like Proem' it's by definition not going to be particularly interesting, innovative stuff, and people are going to call bullshit when we claim that we listen to IDM because it's such exciting, groundbreaking music.
So, can we get constructive and suggest some exciting electronic music that isn't 'the standard IDM sound'? I'll open the bidding at Skream, Black Dice, Exile and Ø.
David
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