Fuck them too. But they're right.
Jr
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From: drift wood <sequential_circus@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: [idm] Mam..they're saying nasty things about us...
quoted 51 lines Those nasty UK Dance people are saying horrid things about us again...
> 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.
>
> <<<<<<
>
> Is it ok to go out again yet?
>
>
>
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