hi,
yeah, maybe you're right... I was being literal and kind of just
joking, and mainly humorously responding to another message. In
reality, as I said, a genre is just a simple way to explain what your
music sounds like to other people, so I don't mind when people call
my music IDM, because I would prefer to be associated with the sound
of Autechre and Aphex Twin etc., although I think probably they all
sound a bit different, just not to the layman. I haven't listened to
all the artists you mentioned, so can't agree or dispute (though I
know Mira Calix sounds a lot like Autechre) so I would say yes,
there are some that have THAT "sound" and some are different, but are
they still IDM? does it matter?
It is good in another respect in that artsits in this "genre" may
have some kind of community. But in my experience if you ask many
musicians what their genre is, they'll probably not want to answer
with one word, or have an answer at all.
cheers
Atom
quoted 13 lines IDM is a description not a genre. :) <<
> >>IDM is a description not a genre. :) <<
>
>I would dispute this. There definitely has arisen a genre called "IDM"
>which sounds as distinctive as drum and bass records sound like drum and
>bass, like acid house records sound like acid house, like bhangramuffin
>records sound like bhangramuffin, and I'm sure this list is at least
>partially responsible for creating it. It doesn't necessarily mean there
>isn't dance music that is intelligent, its just by focussing on acts like
>Autechre, Push Button Objects, Funkstorung, Freeform, Mira Calix, Boards of
>Canada and what have you things have sort of crystallized together into a
>distinctive sound.
>
>BABY DIDDY
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