Well, been a pretty long time since we had this conversation for the nth
time, and it won't last long. The next time will probably be longer away
and less long, if you get my drift. In fifty years there will probably
be a single post about it after 20 years or something.
quoted 60 lines I never understood why so much time is wasted on bitching about a name
> I never understood why so much time is wasted on bitching about a name
> of a genre of music. Better things.....
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com
> <mailto:zombiefly@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 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 :)
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> On 23 September 2014 13:32, kawayama <kawayama@gmail.com
> <mailto:kawayama@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 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
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