quoted 3 lines the bottom line being that idm is an extremely disposable genre. it
>the bottom line being that idm is an extremely disposable genre. it
>doesn't mean it's bad or useless. just that you'll find yourself bored
>with it eventually. especially if it keeps going the way it does.
IDM's not a genre. It's a mailing list. At least that's what the IDM list homepage said when I joined a few years back. A lot of the music on this list is hard to classify, but I daresay most of it fits under the umbrella of techno and hip hop. The reason we talk about some techno on this list and ignore, say Moby and Prodigy, is because those artists produce music that truly is "disposable" (because it's formulaic). Complexity and melody (like in Autechre's music) have staying power, even if copied, at least in my book.
Flame away :-)
Jacob
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