From 0 Sent Mon, Feb 15th 1999, 21:50
From 0 Sent Mon, Feb 15th 1999, 21:50
> here in toronto canada us IDMers are a reserved, selfconcious bunch i > guess. at aphex twin there was too much entertainment with the dancing > bears and all to concentrate on dancing. and at solvent/lowfish or > panasonic we just stand there watching them twiddle their nobs. it's all > rather silly, really. and that's why i don't bother going to these > events anymore, the music just can't be appreciated in the same way as > in the comfy setting of your bedroom. and then there's the ravers, > they're a disgusting bunch. > he he he, here in LA area same shit. Must explain why the OC crew has events like Sterile and Nightnoise and other smaller more shit-downish events. I don't think IDM was ever meant for a large CLUB/dance setting. read the first Artificial Intelligence and it says something like "music for when you get back from the club" I agree. Certainly, some foolios, like myself, can dance to Lexaunculpt, but most people when they hear LIVE IDM are either listening or asking their neighbor in the crowd "what the fuck kinda music is this" Thats great. IDM not causing a big crowd to dance has brought me to appreciate spinning electro. Many IDM trax have plenty of electro sounds and feel to them and they can be mixed with more traditional electro (ie something from IT or Seratonin) if you're good at DJ'ing (which I'm not). But for a LIVE performance I don't think the crowd can get into it as much. This is especially true since more and more musicians are simply bringing a laptop/Desktop computer to the gig and nothing else. It's kinda boring to watch some geek behind a monitor hit the spacebar and watch the sequencer/track player go by. of course, this wholve live-dancing issue is also dependent on which artists you're calling IDM? Pole, for example, had the entire EL Rey theatre moving, but his music sounded like AMBIENT to me. (ok, lets not debate on POLE and what genre he fits). My point is that he had a Laptop and no four to the floor. The Pole gig also did not attract the raver crowd. So what I wrote above doesn't always apply. Sometimes a dude with a laptop only can rock the house. Richie Divine on the other hand shocked everyone, there was any "dance" feel to any of his music. He too only had a laptop. So who knows. I guess setting, style of IDM, sound system, how many drinks the crowd has had, how old the crowd is, and other variables also go into whether a crowd will respond by dancing to a LIVE IDM performance. g