quoted 19 lines Opinion poll: Is Leftfield IDM? I think they're actually the closest
> > Opinion poll: Is Leftfield IDM? I think they're actually the closest
>thing
> > to Intelligent *Dance* Music - they aim squarely at the dancefloor with
> > crunch-techno tracks like Phat Planet and Double Flash, but they manage
>to
> > infuse new sounds and structures into their music, meaning that you can
> > listen to it equally well. Agree/disagree?
> > (That's not to say that I rank them anywhere near equal with, say, Ae or
> > AFX - it's a totally different style, and are those two really
>danceable? I
> > tried dancing to Acroyear2 and sprained my ankle - but they are damn
> > good at what they do.)
>
>idm was originally meant to describe the early meshing of dance music &
>some ah-hum-whatever 'intelligent' factor. listen to early autechre &
>aphex twin ('incunabula' & polygon window 'surfing on sine waves' should
>make the original definition clear to anyone.) since then it has
>changed so much that trying to make techno-pop bands such as 'leftfield'
>fit the idm bill is regressive & a tad tasteless.
--let's hold off on the IDM snobbery please...i don't think that leftfield
is that bad...some might not fit into IDM...but it does in the free-est
sense of the word...
--remember, IDM stands for "intelligent dance music" not "let's worship
Aphex and Autechre as gods and think they are the standard against which
everything else is compared"
--cmon now...it's about open-mindedness...not categorization and
such...unless of course you're a parasitic journalist...
Dino
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