Hey All...
I really have to share this with you...
This is what 'Ed David M' has to say @ audiogalaxy.com when trying to
explain what IDM is :
As the electronic subgenre known as Intelligent Dance Music becomes more and
more popular, it also becomes more and more clear that the musics name isn
t exactly perfect. First, it implies that other types of dance music are
just not, well, intelligent . Second, is Aphex Twin even close to being
dance music? And third, what exactly does it mean? This last can apply to
any classification from Big Beat to (especially) Trance, but the question
seems to become overwhelming when applied to IDM.
Basically, it seems that IDM applies to music that:
a) Uses Weird Sound. odd, noisy, alienating and obscure samples. Squelched
beats, jagged synth lines, static washes, electrical shorts.
b) Defies rhythmic convention. Most good IDM draws from harsh jungle or
arrythmic ambient drift, and throws in plenty of curves: sudden starts,
stops, and odd changes. Its like electronic Free Jazz.
c) Presents an Academic Image. All good IDM artists will either refuse to be
photographed, use building blueprints as album art, call themselves Cerebral
without irony, or claim to build all their own synthesizers. From scratch.
d) Cant be danced to. Unless you do the Robot.
Now you might expect a judgment and opinion... I have none!
Greetings,
Paul
I have a cool quote for you though. It's by mr. Pascal (yes he invented this
programming language) :
I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to
make it shorter.
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