I think the main problem I have with IDM getting into the
mainstream is not the fact that our music is being transferred to
the overground but the worry that our attitude/mind-set is not
being transferred as well.
I like to think that IDM listeners have a certain state-of-mind
and a certain open-mindedness which goes along with the type
of music we listen to, hand-in-hand.
House music used to be about love/peace/happiness in the old
days, but now it's completely commercialised, very little
of that old mindset is apparent...go into a house club now
and everyone's wearing the same cack clothes and standing around
staring at each other in a are-you-looking-at-my-bird kind of
way, because these people are the general public who are into
house coz it's the current cool thing, what do they know about
Bang the Party, Marshall Jefferson, Fast Eddie etc, they've
probably never heard of them, but all of them are important
house artists.
What I'm trying to say is that why should they accept our music
but not our attitude to life that partly makes the music what
it is.
I think Dan Curtin's track "State of Mind" said it best with the
vocal sample "House Music....state of mind" Same goes for all types
of dance music.
On now: "Bradley's Robot" Brad Stryder, the first track of which is
the most alien thing i've heard in a long time.
--
Ben Coffer
Hybrid Productions