I will have to second my good friend Ian's experience. Except my
initials are EIM (close, oh so close but no idm-cigar).
I too was already into it before i heard it had a name.
hell, for the longest time i thought IDM = Industrial Death Metal.
-e
Ian Monroe wrote:
quoted 31 lines When I first encountered the "IDM" genre tag, I deliberately avoided it.
>When I first encountered the "IDM" genre tag, I deliberately avoided it.
>I didn't want to know anything about it, I didn't want to listen to it,
>I didn't want people to say it.
>
>Because it's my initials. Ian D. Monroe. I thought to myself, "Self,
>what kind of fool starts listening to a genre of music that's named
>after oneself?" And that was the end of that.
>
>Some months later, I actually saw a list of artists that were considered
>"IDM" (though, at the time, I lumped them into "electronica") like
>Squarepusher, AFX, Plaid, etc. It turned out that I was ALREADY
>listening to those artists all the time.
>
>So then, it became a happy accident. The genre of stuff that I really
>liked also happens to share my initials.
>
>Then I joined this list. That was forever ago.
>
>-Ian
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