Hah. This thread is the first time the topic has come up without an old
timer chiming it to explain tings.
http://music.hyperreal.org/lists/idm
The name came from the Warp "Artificial Intelligence" compilation. The
incestuous relationship between the music and the mailing list was evident
early on -- the second AI compilation's CD booklet was decorated with posts
from the IDM list.
I've not been on the list since the beginning, but I've been around for
10 years (!) and there are a few other longtimers around still. I don't think
anyone is crazy about IDM becoming a term of art. It's kind of embarrassing.
IDM really is a mailing list, not a genre. But if you want to know where
the mailing list came from, listen to:
AFX "Surfing on Sine Waves"
Orb "UF Orb"
Orbital "Brown Album"
Muziq "Bluff Limbo"
Black Dog "Bytes"
Drexciya EPs 1-4
AI I
AI II
None of this stuff would really fit with most of what is being discussed
now, but that's fine too, because IDM is a mailing list, not a genre ;-)
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, chthonic streams wrote:
quoted 20 lines "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com> said:
> "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com> said:
>
>
> >The person who started the list made it up, as far as I know.
> >
> >Through circumstances that I don't understand,
> >the list's name became more well known than
> >any other name for the music that happens to be
> >discussed on here.
> >
> >That's where the genre name use of "IDM" came from.
> >
> >- cutups
>
>
> are you serious? it wasn't originated in reviews or press releases?
>
> who started the list? are they still around?
>
>
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