quoted 4 lines Starting a new experimental label in our current climate has proven> Starting a new experimental label in our current climate has proven
> strange. The press continually make us feel like die-hard Seattle Grungers
> clinging desparately to our flanel shirts....is this for real? Are we
> dying?
tbh, if cheap knockoffs of Plaid or Ae are dying (figuratively), then I'm all for it.
OTOH, people trying to make new and unusual and not-purely-for-the-dancefloor music using electronics seems unlikely to stop (or to stop being interesting), and that was always the definition of IDM that I preferred.
It's like saying that jazz was a 'dying genre' when swing gave way to bebop. The only thing that's dying is music that's stagnating. If you want to define IDM to be only the stagnant part of the music, then of course it'll die. If you define it to be the 'infinite possibilities' part of the music, then it's in fine fettle.
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