From Che Sent Mon, Jan 5th 1998, 13:03
From Che Sent Mon, Jan 5th 1998, 13:03
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, siliconvortex wrote: > in shops in britain, they generally lump everything into 4 categories: > techno, house, downtempo breaks and jungle. if they are a bit more > knowledgeable they will have a small electronica or experimental section but > otherwise it just gets shoved in the techno section. i've never seen a shop > with a section entitled 'idm', which is probably a good thing cos then the > people into the other stuff would *never* buy it: Synaptic Records in Denver actually _does_ have an 'idm' section. I had to smile when I saw it. Most US shops lump everything into "dance" or "techno", often the trip-hop winds up in rap, depending on how clueless they are. Sometimes there's an ambient section, where you'll find everything from Moby to T.Dream... Che