quoted 3 lines Does that mean that this list will cease to exist when Warp> Does that mean that this list will cease to exist when Warp
> discontinues the AI series?.. Also, I think much of Aphex Twin fails this
> criterion.. There's nothing "intelligent" about most all of his music..
You're falling into the trap of thinking that the "intelligent" in IDM
is a value judgement. It isn't, and I would argue it isn't even
a useful descriptiion.
There is a particular set of styles of electronic music which the
music press, in their infinitesimal wisdom and constant desire to
pigeon-hole, dubbed "intelligent techno" (this list seems to prefer
the moniker "IDM" -- I regard the two as synonymous).
It may not be a good name, but it's the name that's stuck for this
style of music. I have a strong feeling that if the music press had
given this genre some meaningless name (such as "xyzzy") the arguments
about what music was and wasn't xyzzy would be far less heated. If
you don't like xyzzy music, fine, you don't have to. But xyzzy is no
more intelligent than trance, techno, rock or anything else. It's
just a style of music. All these genres contain both highly creative
works and completely uninteresting dross.
Jusrt my thoughts,
Cosmic