Nobody in any country uses the term Intelligent in any conceited
way, it's more pun if anything. For someone to think Americans
actually use the word in a literal pedestal fashion is absurd.
Furthermore, Americans didn't even come up with it, heh. :)
-sine
On 17 Dec 2004 at 18:11, Paul Thomas wrote:
quoted 79 lines I thought that idm is just a ghey label thought up by conceted Americans
> I thought that idm is just a ghey label thought up by conceted Americans
> who feel the need to categorize their tastes in some kind of self
> important way. Over here in the UK if you use the words "Intelligent
> Dance Music" people will generally look at you very strangely indeed and
> if I'm honest, quite rightly too, I think... What makes certain music
> more 'intelligent'?
>
> Paul
>
> Cody Tubbs (wISPdirect) wrote:
>
> >Nothing has to be limited, but IDM does have it's own elements. When artists have
> >all of these elements including loads that have nothing todo with the genre, that's
> >when they sortof become something of their own. It may be nitpicky to say they
> >aren't, but it was just too much lyrical guitar rock to me. I may be wrong though, I
> >just distinctly remember not liking how much they sounded like the virgin suicide
> >soundtrack that Air did. And to just push them into the idm genre because they have
> >a bit of idm relation INSIDE of loads that's not isn't really justified, they might as well
> >be pushed into something else. Nobody is even talking about autechre or aphex
> >clones, I'm talking about indie/post rock bands that are using mad electronics now
> >taking their own turn, not becoming idm, but becoming something of their own.
> >
> >-sine@IntelligentDanceMusic.com
> >
> >On 17 Dec 2004 at 9:47, chthonic wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>I'm not familiar with Air enough to say.
> >>>
> >>>But aesthetically I'd count M83's sound as tangential to alot of
> >>>
> >>>
> >>IDM.
> >>
> >>
> >>>They are as heavily electronic and independant-minded,
> >>>which is really the only definition of IDM i can come up with.
> >>>
> >>>Don't mean to nitpick - I just think of IDM as being
> >>>a very general thing rather than limited to autechre clones.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>that's right - you have to include all the aphex twin clones too.
> >>
> >></snark>
> >>
> >>d.
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