From david turgeon Sent Mon, Sep 20th 1999, 16:17
From david turgeon Sent Mon, Sep 20th 1999, 16:17
> It's a monstrous error to say that house/techno/disco/dance club music is > somehow less intelligently created or heard than IDM, and I often suspect > that the difference boils down to class/race/sexual preference. One could > argue pretty convincingly that IDM = dance music for straight white middle > class guys who can't dance. this has been debated to death, but -- once & for all: 'intelligent' is a tag created by WARP RECORDS to distinguish a form of techno not based on the dancefloor. eventually the term got so misused that really i wouldn't attempt going further than calling it 'idm' & letting people wonder at what those letters could mean. as much as some people can't understand music outside the dancefloor, i for one cannot understand music _inside_ the dancefloor. i don't care about dancing, i think it looks silly, & it's definitely not part of my culture. dancefloor music isn't made for the _head_, it's made for the _booty_. i don't care how easy or hard it is to create a track that goes boom boom till your legs bleed, the only people who're going to wonder how intelligently the track was created are fellow musicians & djs. with idm, there's actually a concern on how it affects the 'intellectual sense' so to speak. as for those who see 'intelligent' as derogatory for others: well, yeah. let's shun intelligence. what GOOD is intelligence?!? who cares about intelligence??? let's not be stupid or intelligent, let's be nothing at all! & i'm back to this point: are we going to trash dance music because it makes the body exercise & therefore improves health?! what about sick music?! that's so derogatory!!! let's call the genre police!!!! -- david