I don't see no connection between having fun and making this kind of music.
what?!?! i think part of the reason why IDM is such a bedroom-producer phenomenon is that nothing could be better than waking up in the morning, frying up some eggs (a la jenkinson in the film modulations), smoking a fat spliff, and taking out everything on your sequencer. it may not be fun for everyone and the whole family, but neither is IDM as a whole. when i show all my computer software to my friends who know nothing about IDM or the making of it, they want to play around with it for hours. it's just intrinsically fun to sit around and play with stuff on a screen that makes weird noises. to a beat.
its not the same fun I get listening to Reggaemusic whiich just makes one feel good and forgent about everything else.
point taken. maybe IDM is not so fun after all. also, though, it depends, because obviously some IDM shows everyone is dancing around having fun forgetting about problems and other shows everyone just looks like they are concentrating harder than they ever have before.
greg