Re: (idm) "Only Stupid People Call it Intelligent"-Rather Interesting Records

From Jason McCollum
Sent Wed, Sep 15th 1999, 22:03

What about the word progressive or hardcore?  I hear people (not on this list)
say, "yeah, that music is hardcare techno or this is progressive trance."
Huh?  Define hardcore and progressive in term of the music you like.  What
makes it hardcore?  What makes Progressive trance different from regular
trance?  I have seen sections that are labeled in some stores as
"Trance-breaks" and some other weird combinations.

Jason

Vague Terrain wrote:

> What bugs me about "intelligent ( . . . )"  is that it encodes a compliment
> to itself and its audience into its very name. Can you think of any other
> genre-name that does this? Are there sections of record stores labelled
> "superior hip hop" or "excellent bluegrass" out there? This is a name that
> doesn't just refer to a field, but pats everyone in that field, and by
> extension everyone who listens to that music, on the back, and it can't
> help but generate a creepy, smug aura.
>
> second post of the day, time to get a life,
>
> Drew