quoted 9 lines . Do you think it has something to do with the availability of the music?>. Do you think it has something to do with the availability of the music?
>. The music itself? The origins of the music (which, if Detroit is cited
>. as a major influence, are a combination of African-American and European
>. styles).
>
>The availability certainly may be an issue. Most idm and ambient music
>is being produced in England and generally sold for import prices. Who
>has the money to waste :) on all this stuff? Though that really only
>applies for America...
I remember posing the race/gender question to this list almost a year
ago, and I never got a definitive answer. I think that a big reason why
there seems to be a stereotype idm-listener is that in the US, IDM is
very unaccessible to a lot of people. Where I am, it gets absolutely no
radio airplay, the local record stores don't carry it, and none of my
friends even know anything about it (except what I tell them). In fact,
the only way for me to find out about good IDM is this list. I have to
purchase all of my IDM thru mail order, so I don't get to listen to it
before hand (I've made many purchasing mistakes, i.e. the several trance
comps that are gathering dust right now). So if you don't have Internet
access, IDM doesn't exist.
-bob
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