It's a new year time to start a new thread about the term 'IDM' eh?
Genre names are shorthand, useful for journalists, and even listeners.
I would bet money there are plenty of people who have seen 'IDM' in
magazine articles and have no idea what the letters stand for. Heh, I
saw 'EBM' for a long time before I broke down and googled it.
The producers of the music have always had an incestuous relationship
with the list, most of them have been on and off the list. Muziq seems
to be back in lurk mode. Autechre were on for a while. RDJ was one
briefly until he decided we were a bunch of sad twats. I know a
couple other guys who are what passes for prominent in this field of
endeavor, who are lurkers now.
IDM is whatever is discussed on this list, a priori. The tastes of
people on this list influence the music that gets made and released. A
disturbingly high percentage of the subscribers are also producers. A
lot of people were initially inspired by the mailing list to start
making tracks. Enough people subscribe to this list to pretty much
pay pressing costs for most of the 'this-listy' music. It's all a
snake swallowing it's tail action.
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