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From:
Pete Kim
To:
Peacejunk
Cc:
John D. ,
Date:
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:18:11 -0400
Subject:
Re: idm list dissed
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Isn't this getting a little old? Let's instead start bashing the term "serious music"—wtf does that mean anyway? On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Peacejunk <peacejunk1@gmx.net> wrote:
quoted 92 lines as long as i don’t see intelligent dances by intelligent dancers i can’t> as long as i don’t see intelligent dances by intelligent dancers i can’t > think of intelligent dance music. > > so can we simply come down on intelligent music? :p > > but good to see how influential the IDM list was that NO ONE could oppose > it with a different name. > i know, all a question of intelligence… > > > ----- > > CRAZY LANGUAGE > N E T L A B E L > for contemporary > electronic music > > http://www.crazy-language.de > http://crazylanguage.bandcamp.com > <http://www.facebook.com/crazy.language.netlabel> > http://www.soundcloud.com/crazy-language > http://www.facebook.com/crazy.language.netlabel > > > > > Am 23.09.2014 um 20:09 schrieb John D. <johndalton@pchome.com.tw>: > > 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. > > 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/> > > > >