i always called it "electronica", saves the hassle.
Scott
quoted 56 lines From: drift wood <sequential_circus@yahoo.co.uk>
>From: drift wood <sequential_circus@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] Mam..they're saying nasty things about us...
>Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:19:06 +0100 (BST)
>
>Those nasty UK Dance people are saying horrid things about us again...
>(see below)
>
>Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:55:42 +0100 (BST)
>From: A Bhattacharyya
>Subject: Fuck IDM
>
>Re this IDM debate... the basic problem with IDM (and I'm talking
>about the overall scene here as opposed to individual artists) is
>its fundamental conservatism. Despite all the cliches about "pushing
>the envelope", "breaking boundaries" etc it subscribes to a reactionary
>
>notion of what art is that is little more than a caricature retread
>of late 19th century and early 20th century modernism.
>
>Specific examples: the artist-as-creative-hero motif, the sneering
>cod-Nietzschean dismissal of the masses, the art-for-art's-sake
>aesthete stance that can only conceive of the dancefloor as a
>constraint, the disdain for "utilitarian" funktionality.
>
>The fact is that despite the many creative and intelligent people
>working in and around IDM, the scene is characterised by a bovine
>dismal refusal to think through these questions, an uncritical
>acceptance of bourgeois artistic values and a smug ignorance of
>the key developments and debates around 20th century music.
>
>Summarising: IDM just ain't intelligent *enough*.
>
>Having said that, there are a few artists classed as IDM that soar
>above the middle-brow middle-of-the-road mediocrity that characterises
>the scene-that-pretends-it-isn't. I'd say Aphex Twin falls into this
>category. As does Oval/Mille Plateaux. Should also stress that I don't
>have a problem with experimentalism-for-experimentalism's-sake, my
>problem is with conservatism-dressed-as-experimentalism.
>
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>Is it ok to go out again yet?
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