For the last time: IDM, or "intelligent dance music," came from Warp's
compilations, "Artificial Intelligence."
The title of those compilations conjured the image of a music made by
sentient machines. As a genre evolved out of the "Warp sound" -- something
sprung from dance floor culture but perhaps not quite of it any longer, the
name "intelligent dance music" seemed a fitting apellation for this sound --
combining the humanity of dance music with the funky automation of
"intelligent machines."
Or so I have always chosen to regard the name. It makes it much less
agonizing.
Philip