On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, siliconvortex wrote:
quoted 6 lines in shops in britain, they generally lump everything into 4 categories:> in shops in britain, they generally lump everything into 4 categories:
> techno, house, downtempo breaks and jungle. if they are a bit more
> knowledgeable they will have a small electronica or experimental section but
> otherwise it just gets shoved in the techno section. i've never seen a shop
> with a section entitled 'idm', which is probably a good thing cos then the
> people into the other stuff would *never* buy it:
Synaptic Records in Denver actually _does_ have an 'idm' section. I had
to smile when I saw it.
Most US shops lump everything into "dance" or "techno", often the
trip-hop winds up in rap, depending on how clueless they are. Sometimes
there's an ambient section, where you'll find everything from Moby to
T.Dream...
Che