Re: (idm) The 'I' in 'IDM'

From jif
Sent Fri, Jun 19th 1998, 15:48

how about, non-dance electronic music, for those rave kids out there who
can only
relate any sort of techno to its rave correpsondent ie (listening to
Music has right
to children) "That's chillout music"... (what was i supposed to answer
to that?
"Err, well, technically, yes...")j-i-f

> Does anyone else have this problem? When people ask me what music I
listen to or
> make, and I say 'Intelligent Dance Music', they think I'm bragging.
Mostly I
> excuse myself by saying I didn't choose the name. Well, if you ever
tried to
> explain to a Spice Girls fan why idm is more intelligent than SG, you
know why I
> say that. Maybe we could start calling it 'Intelligent Dumb Music'
like someone
> here suggested...