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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 musics
name isnt 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. Its 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) Cant be danced to. Unless you do the Robot.
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