IDM Thread

[Karlos Santos]

Boards of Canada .

On repeat on my iPod when im beach/pool side when on holiday, as i was 3 weeks ago.
Especially the 'Hi Scores' EP.

Lay back and driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiift away

[oliosky]

Oh man. Its blissed out near perfection eh.

[decon]

Gah, Internet connection broke, removed my post

Here's a tl:dr, I'll write up my post again when I have time:
Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
Boards of Canada
Amon Tobin
Tycho
Wisp (everything is free)
Autechre
Squarepusher

[Zhao]

Wow this is good study music

[dafe]

It was just a label someone thought up to promote certain acts on certain labels that didn't really have anything to do with genre.

I should also note that I have never ever heard anyone from the UK call anything 'Intelligent Dance Music".

yup.
it was widely panned and criticised as well (including by the artists who found themselves categorised by it)

[oliosky]

IDM is a terrible term. Good music though. I think the term electronica now covers most of the stuff these days.

[Zhao]

Not really sure why artists wouldn't want to be labelled by it. I guess some prefer no genre at all. Imo most of this stuff just seems like avant garde electronic music.

[Karlos Santos]

IDM is a terrible term. Good music though. I think the term electronica now covers most of the stuff these days.

Fully agree with that statement.

I say 'electronica', so do my friends. I have never heard the term 'IDM'.

The last time i heard the word 'intelligent' used to describe music was when people started calling some D&B 'Intelligent Drum & Bass' just cus it was jazzy and had real musicians playing on it instead of just being arse-tearing 'Jungle'.

I get it, i really do but personally i think the use of the word 'intelligent' to describe a genre of music is incredibly pretentious and actually quite dumb.

Its almost like saying, if you dont like it, then you dont get it cus it's too intelligent for you.

I can quite understand someone thinking that Boards Of Canada are dreadful and sound like a badly tuned-in radio thats playing songs on the wrong speed. That doesn't mean they don't understand it.

Id rather hear someone stumble over words and find it hard to describe what they are listening to than hear them say 'intelligent'.

btw - no-one ever mentions Waiwan. Total legend based in Manchester in the 90's (although not from there i dont think).

This is one one my all time favourite tunes... this builds into something truly amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICNJmjl0co

[Zhao]

I get it, i really do but personally i think the use of the word 'intelligent' to describe a genre of music is incredibly pretentious and actually quite dumb.

Its almost like saying, if you dont like it, then you dont get it cus it's too intelligent for you.

I see what you're saying, but I just see it as any other grouping of music. I guess it's rather useless if nobody uses it, but that's just what my friend told me it was called. I feel like it probably wasn't meant to be interpreted that way, but then again what do I know Nice tune anyways

[feelthecisuM]

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