From Artie Qewpie Sent Tue, Sep 23rd 2014, 16:43
From Artie Qewpie Sent Tue, Sep 23rd 2014, 16:43
I think it's an entirely contrived debate fomented by music journalists desperate to maintain the illusion that they're worth their keep. On 9/23/2014 12:08 PM, Wes wrote: > I think it should be called music. But people do need a way to lookout certain styles or ideas that they're searching for so categorisation does have a purpose. What I don't like is people disliking an entire genre of music, some songs are better or worse than others regardless of style. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 23 Sep 2014, at 16:57, Jared Dunne <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >> >> I never understood why so much time is wasted on bitching about a name of a genre of music. Better things..... >> >>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Zombiefly <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >>> i always preferred the label "electronica" for the genre. But at the time IDM came to be because the UK was dancing in fields to 4-4 beat piano tracks inter-dispersed with hoover sounds. It was viewed that Autechre etc. was more "listening music", therefore more intelligent than the generic fodder blasting into the countryside at 6am.... i guess :) >>> >>>> On 23 September 2014 13:32, kawayama <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >>>> bit too much nit-picking and defensiveness going on here, i think. >>>> "intelligent dance music" is an okay name for a mailing list, but a horrible name for a genre, can we not all agree on that? >>>> >>>> and Warp only named their compilation "artificial intelligence", as in the scientific concept, they never claimed the music was more intelligent than other music. in fact, Warp called it 'listening music' in the liner notes. it was the creators of this list who named it. >>>> >>>> k >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> constant shallowness leads to evil. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> _____________________________________________ >>> Sent from my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K >>> _____________________________________________ >>> noise I make: >>> http://www.soundcloud.com/pushkin >>> http://www.last.fm/music/Pushkin >>> >>> noise I like: >>> http://www.last.fm/user/zombiefly >>> >>> sites I run: >>> http://www.ctran.co.uk >>> http://o-fu-online.net >>> ------------------------------- >> >> >> >> -- >> 22tape/jared dunne >> listen > -- --arturius qewpie that which is, is wat