my 2 cents, without reading the comments/responses of others (yet) is that the 'idm' genre, kind of by default, includes a lot of the more experimental electronic pop (such as the stuff put out by morr/city centre offices/darla & others) which is often a bit too non-conventional to fit into other genres (hip-hop, downtempo, house)... and is essentially happy (sometimes sad) poppy music - but very very electronic nonetheless. the best example I can think of is boards of canada, who do mostly straightforward downtempo instrumental hip-hop, but it's all a bit too tonal for the 'downtempo' set and certainly doesn't fit into the cafe-del-mar 'chillout' style that is (hopefully) on its way out. so we call it 'idm', which is as good as any other name, i guess.
at the same time, there's still a great deal of dark, noisy, intellectually dense 'idm' out there - one only needs to look at artists like autechre, phoenica (practically everyone on the schematic label), black dice, venetian snares, push button objects (tho his new album is mellower), while, beta bodega, and probably a host of others (i'm not as well-versed in idm as i'd like to be) including, of course, aphex twin (his new ep is pretty aggro), squarepusher, etc etc etc...
personally, i've been feeling the early pbo stuff lately, and the new caural ep...
./wil m.
"Marijus S." <mariosanctus@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello people out there.
A few days ago I somehow put Joey Beltram "Aonox" into my player and
caught myself realizing that probably 95% of all IDM that I got recently to
listen to is rather positive (if not to say bright/good/happy). And as my
mind
at the moment is demanding something much less sweet, closer to the real
taste of
life, darker and not-positive or even negative, I started looking through my
collection.
Well (from what I know), so far I can name only Autechre DRAFT 7.30 which
is just perfect, VSnares in some cases, Plastikman of course...And then I
stop :-/
Is it true that most of IDM is reaching our ears in positive-mood format or
I just wasn't
lucky enough to know the dark side of idm? Any ideas?
Peace,
M.
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