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The only reason anyone would get annoyed at the term IDM is because it includes the term "Intelligent". That annoys people who have to compete with everything on every level and hurts their superiority complex. It's just a name, and should be gotten over. As Kawa said: "and Warp only named their compilation "artificial intelligence", as in the scientific concept, they never claimed the music was more intelligent than other music. in fact, Warp called it 'listening music' in the liner notes. it was the creators of this list who named it." This is pretty much the end of the convo to anyone who feels they need to pick apart the term "IDM". ========================== Francis Xavier "It's like sitting on the bank of the river and watching the river waters go by. And when you so watch, there is neither the observer or the observed. There is only a movement." - Jiddu Krishnamurti [image: Halcyon Chillout] <http://www.halcyonchillout.com> http://www.halcyonchillout.com http://www.francisxavier.org On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I never understood why so much time is wasted on bitching about a name of > a genre of music. Better things..... > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i always preferred the label "electronica" for the genre. But at the time >> IDM came to be because the UK was dancing in fields to 4-4 beat piano >> tracks inter-dispersed with hoover sounds. It was viewed that Autechre etc. >> was more "listening music", therefore more intelligent than the generic >> fodder blasting into the countryside at 6am.... i guess :) >> >> On 23 September 2014 13:32, kawayama <kawayama@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> bit too much nit-picking and defensiveness going on here, i think. >>> "intelligent dance music" is an okay name for a mailing list, but a >>> horrible name for a genre, can we not all agree on that? >>> >>> and Warp only named their compilation "artificial intelligence", as in >>> the scientific concept, they never claimed the music was more intelligent >>> than other music. in fact, Warp called it 'listening music' in the liner >>> notes. it was the creators of this list who named it. >>> >>> k >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> constant shallowness leads to evil. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________ >> Sent from my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K >> _____________________________________________ >> noise I make: >> http://www.soundcloud.com/pushkin >> http://www.last.fm/music/Pushkin >> >> noise I like: >> http://www.last.fm/user/zombiefly >> >> sites I run: >> http://www.ctran.co.uk >> http://o-fu-online.net >> ------------------------------- >> > > > > -- > 22tape/jared dunne > listen <http://22tape.com> >