Heeheehee, I always love when someone posts this one, because I'm in it.
m@2zo (aka Cerebral)
www.thechisa.com
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Joe Peterson wrote:
quoted 57 lines I quite liked the part about how "wierd sounds" are a sign of IDM.
> I quite liked the part about how "wierd sounds" are a sign of IDM.
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> Are YOU Smart Enough?
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> As the electronic subgenre known as Intelligent Dance Music becomes more and
> more popular, it also becomes more and more clear that the music?s name isn?t
> exactly perfect. First, it implies that other types of dance music are just
> not, well, intelligent . Second, is Aphex Twin even close to being dance
> music? And third, what exactly does it mean? This last can apply to any
> classification from Big Beat to (especially) Trance, but the question seems to
> become overwhelming when applied to IDM.
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> Basically, it seems that IDM applies to music that:
> a) Uses Weird Sound. odd, noisy, alienating and obscure samples. Squelched
> beats, jagged synth lines, static washes, electrical shorts.
> b) Defies rhythmic convention. Most good IDM draws from harsh jungle or
> arrythmic ambient drift, and throws in plenty of curves: sudden starts, stops,
> and odd changes. It?s like electronic Free Jazz.
> c) Presents an Academic Image. All good IDM artists will either refuse to be
> photographed, use building blueprints as album art, call themselves Cerebral
> without irony, or claim to build all their own synthesizers. From scratch.
> d) Can?t be danced to. Unless you do the Robot.
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> Some of the best IDM artists out there offer tracks on Audiogalaxy. Recent
> Russian arrivals Fizzarum, elder statesman Scanner, and superstar Amon Tobin,
> though prominent, are not alone. My personal favorite is Twine , and let?s not
> forget Kid 606, whos infamy is only outweighed by his talent. 606 labelmates
> DAT Politics are perhaps the most underrated IDM act around, with a sound
> that?s as hard to describe as it is to forget.
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> There?s also plenty of quality IDM native to Audiogalaxy, created by a
> vertiable army of desk jockeys who pledge their alleigance to our digital
> flag. Roll call: Cerebral (I was shocked to find he?s not actually Asian),
> Profolyx, Elleniad, Precenphix, Nate Tarrant, The Stunted Mike, Disasemble,
> Halface, Cell, Notlad. They make good music, and they?ll probably be your
> friend if you can find them hanging around the boards.
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