I gotta second this thought 1000%...
quoted 4 lines All the sudden a band has a dance feel to the their tunes and now we need to>All the sudden a band has a dance feel to the their tunes and now we need to
>consider them IDM??? If that be the case, shit we might as well talk about
>Madonna. Most of her songs are dancey, if they are intelligent in anyway is
>another story.
This kind of thing pisses me off big time about a lot of people I know. All of a sudden grungoid rawknroll is no longer quite as trendy as it was, the masses are on a dance tip, E is the shit (*hahaha*), and wanker pop star muso's are cashing in on it. Friends of mine believe the wanker poppy music coming out is the new edge. Bollocks!
I mean cases like U2, Tori Amos (Professional Widow - makes me wanna puke!! & I don't care who remixed/produced the dancey version).
The problem is when POP wankers & the MAN hijack kif producers they tend to lose their street appeal. I mean can I trust HowieB again after doing work on POP. Likewise what about Eno?????
But now the other problem is. How far do we go...
U2 is one thing, but what about bands like Underworld. I still have a bit of a hard time liking them because they will always be a POP band (does anyone remember "Underneath the Radar") in my eyes, it smelt to me the first time I heard dubnobasswithmyheadman that Underworld had hijacked a genre started by people like Orbital and made a POP album out of it. Even the Shamen made POP music in the 80's.
quoted 1 line but there is one thing we all know IDM is not: rock!>but there is one thing we all know IDM is not: rock!
And must be our resounding athem.... IDM is not ROCK!!!!
chillos
Kontrolman