quoted 5 lines Just to clarify, "IDM" was coined by the creators of this mailing list.>Just to clarify, "IDM" was coined by the creators of this mailing list.
>It's never been a good descriptive term for a genre since from the
>beginning this list has discussed everything from jazz and hip hop to
>techno and gamelan. In my mind, labelling a music store record bin "IDM" is
>akin to labelling a record bin "The Wire." I've never really understood it.
Seems to be that the record store IDM bin contains just misc. weird
electronic stuff. Not even necessarily stuff that gets talked about on the
list. It's like they take a listen, don't know what it is exactly, and
toss it in :)
I mean, it's sort of like the list. We're kind of a big ol' "misc file."
derek
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