isophlux wrote:
quoted 4 lines When this so called IDM music starts riots with 12 and 15 year girls and boys out> When this so called IDM music starts riots with 12 and 15 year girls and boys out
> side the M-TV studios, on total request live with Carson, then it's pop
> music. Or the next time your at the gas station and you pick up a new
> Skam release while you pay for your gas, then it's pop music!!!! Or ...Or ...
Or when IDM tunes are used on major commercials or when IDM tunes are used in highly
publicized movies or when IDM artists go on tour with internationally famous artists
or when you see reports about IDM artists on MTV... Hold on...
Look ! Pierre Henry, Xenakis, Cage, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Gesualdo, Noh
Theater, Peking Opera or even Bach are some examples of stuff that's _not_ pop.
IDM/dance music/whatever is fucking POP music. It's not challenging music. It doesn't
engage you intellectually. You don't have to make any effort to appreciate the music.
There's nothing challenging about A(/B) song structures or simple, repetitive nursery
rhyme melodies or beats that stick to a regular pulse for 5-10 minutes, even if
they're highly syncopated. They still appeal to your ass more than any other body
part. It doesn't matter if your mom or some frat boy or some 12 year old girl doesn't
"get it". I'd say when you start getting into Mego type stuff you're starting to
leave the pop realm, but is that even IDM ? And personally I don't even find _that_
stuff very challenging. There's not that much going on there beyond the surface. But
Lexaunculpt and his basic major key chord progressions isn't pop ?
: )
Andrei
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