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quoted 2 lines IDM is a description not a genre. :) It's more about what it's not

>IDM is a description not a genre. :) It's more about what it's not >than what it is.

i agree that idm is definitely a slippery description of music, but, i mean, music expressed in a review form is always going to be assigned to a genre. it's like, if i get a guitar, and a bass player, and a mediocre drummer, and we play some chords and sing about how cool we are and how we always get chicks, it sounds an awful lot like "rock", eh? but rock is just a description of a type of music. i thought that a genre was a description anyways. from Merriam-Webster, we get "genre" as : "a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content". so genres are a type of category, and to me, you can't have categories wifout describing the content. like, there's obviously a wide variety of baroque art, but just because something displays characteristics of baroque doesn't mean it's baroque. From my point of view, there are pretty standard bases for "idm". i'm not going to rant about which ones are or aren't idm, since people have different points of view on it anyways (like people have different points of views for other genres...), but i think it's safe to say that arovane's "atol scrap" is definitely "idm", whilst "tides" off "tides" is almost "post rock". besides, if it was solely for description, we wouldn't use "idm", we'd use things like idm-y and idm-ish solely, since nouns aren't adjectives. cheers, -derek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org