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I Don't Mind IDM. It Definitely Makes Identifying Delicious Music Inherently Doable Mentally. Interesting Discussion Mates: Intellectually Decisive Minds Interpreting Dependable Magazines. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:

quoted 76 lines i dislike country music as an entire genre

> i dislike country music as an entire genre > > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Wes <wesley.macdonald@hotmail.co.uk> > wrote: > >> I think it should be called music. But people do need a way to lookout >> certain styles or ideas that they're searching for so categorisation does >> have a purpose. What I don't like is people disliking an entire genre of >> music, some songs are better or worse than others regardless of style. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 23 Sep 2014, at 16:57, Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 <http://22tape.com> >> >> >