From The Rare Guy Sent Fri, Jun 19th 1998, 21:31
On Friday, 19-Jun-98, Mark Stevens wrote [about Re: (idm) The 'I' in 'IDM']: >On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:41:41 +0200, you wrote: >>Does anyone else have this problem? When people ask me what music I listen to >or >>make, and I say 'Intelligent Dance Music', they think I'm bragging. >If people ask me what sort of music I mostly listen to, then I'll >usually describe it as "underground techno". It sounds less >pretentious than "Intelligent Dance Music", but conveys the idea that >it's nothing like commercial techno (although thankfully that sort of >thing has merged into the club scene). I usually say "electronic music" or "electronic dance music" or "electronic listening/dance music".. coz IMHO IDM is inside that broad generalisation.. like I said before, I believe that IDM has become a genre.. a genre that house and some other stuff does not belong to.. but I also like house, trance (especially hard trance) and electro, etc.. hence saying "electronic dance music" __ __\ \ / /_\ \ 1cQ<->uIN \_____/ 1.3777993 "..in whatever you do, if you can't break new ground, what's the point?" - James Cameron