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as long as i don’t see intelligent dances by intelligent dancers i can’t think of intelligent dance music. so can we simply come down on intelligent music? :p but good to see how influential the IDM list was that NO ONE could oppose it with a different name. i know, all a question of intelligence… ----- CRAZY LANGUAGE N E T L A B E L for contemporary electronic music http://www.crazy-language.de http://crazylanguage.bandcamp.com http://www.soundcloud.com/crazy-language http://www.facebook.com/crazy.language.netlabel Am 23.09.2014 um 20:09 schrieb John D. <johndalton@pchome.com.tw>:

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> Well, been a pretty long time since we had this conversation for the nth time, and it won't last long. The next time will probably be longer away and less long, if you get my drift. In fifty years there will probably be a single post about it after 20 years or something. >> I never understood why so much time is wasted on bitching about a name of a genre of music. Better things..... >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com> wrote: >> i always preferred the label "electronica" for the genre. But at the time IDM came to be because the UK was dancing in fields to 4-4 beat piano tracks inter-dispersed with hoover sounds. It was viewed that Autechre etc. was more "listening music", therefore more intelligent than the generic fodder blasting into the countryside at 6am.... i guess :) >> >> On 23 September 2014 13:32, kawayama <kawayama@gmail.com> wrote: >> bit too much nit-picking and defensiveness going on here, i think. >> "intelligent dance music" is an okay name for a mailing list, but a horrible name for a genre, can we not all agree on that? >> >> and Warp only named their compilation "artificial intelligence", as in the scientific concept, they never claimed the music was more intelligent than other music. in fact, Warp called it 'listening music' in the liner notes. it was the creators of this list who named it. >> >> k >> >> >> >> -- >> >> constant shallowness leads to evil. >> >> >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________ >> Sent from my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K >> _____________________________________________ >> noise I make: >> http://www.soundcloud.com/pushkin >> http://www.last.fm/music/Pushkin >> >> noise I like: >> http://www.last.fm/user/zombiefly >> >> sites I run: >> http://www.ctran.co.uk >> http://o-fu-online.net >> ------------------------------- >> >> >> >> -- >> 22tape/jared dunne >> listen >