I thought that idm is just a ghey label thought up by conceted Americans
who feel the need to categorize their tastes in some kind of self
important way. Over here in the UK if you use the words "Intelligent
Dance Music" people will generally look at you very strangely indeed and
if I'm honest, quite rightly too, I think... What makes certain music
more 'intelligent'?
Paul
Cody Tubbs (wISPdirect) wrote:
quoted 61 lines Nothing has to be limited, but IDM does have it's own elements. When artists have
>Nothing has to be limited, but IDM does have it's own elements. When artists have
>all of these elements including loads that have nothing todo with the genre, that's
>when they sortof become something of their own. It may be nitpicky to say they
>aren't, but it was just too much lyrical guitar rock to me. I may be wrong though, I
>just distinctly remember not liking how much they sounded like the virgin suicide
>soundtrack that Air did. And to just push them into the idm genre because they have
>a bit of idm relation INSIDE of loads that's not isn't really justified, they might as well
>be pushed into something else. Nobody is even talking about autechre or aphex
>clones, I'm talking about indie/post rock bands that are using mad electronics now
>taking their own turn, not becoming idm, but becoming something of their own.
>
>-sine@IntelligentDanceMusic.com
>
>On 17 Dec 2004 at 9:47, chthonic wrote:
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>
>>>I'm not familiar with Air enough to say.
>>>
>>>But aesthetically I'd count M83's sound as tangential to alot of
>>>
>>>
>>IDM.
>>
>>
>>>They are as heavily electronic and independant-minded,
>>>which is really the only definition of IDM i can come up with.
>>>
>>>Don't mean to nitpick - I just think of IDM as being
>>>a very general thing rather than limited to autechre clones.
>>>
>>>
>>that's right - you have to include all the aphex twin clones too.
>>
>></snark>
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>>d.
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