From brian j tang Sent Tue, May 5th 1998, 18:16
From brian j tang Sent Tue, May 5th 1998, 18:16
> Thus spake GamePrg.: > > > > I still like IDM though.. > > > NB. This article may or may not be a complete waste of your time and/or > bandwidth. Continue at your own discretion, I will rant incoherently for > a while. > > The current thread on IDM/ADM is pathologically ridiculous. Categorising > music by genre is either a masculine trait inherent in all human life or > a genial ploy of the marketing powers-that-be. actually I tend to use on a semantical basis. Like talking to a friend, "I was thinking of going to listen to DJ foo tonite, what does he spin", "well dj foo spins a bit of minimal techno, and will sometimes have some runs of progressive house." These genrefications come in very handy at times. While what you are saying about the marketing aspects can be true I don't really think that the marketing powers that be really made it past electronica and drum'n'bass. Even though electronica is a marketing term, I thinks it's probably a good one in the sense of describing the whole broad based-genre including techno, house, jungle, downtempo, intelligent gabber, speed jungle, or happy trance. etc. etc. and I don't have to go and explain what IDM means, and how I find the term intelligent pretentious. ObIdm: RAC is gewWd brian tang royalblue technologies