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Anyone seen this article? interesting point about how this once electronica label somehow keeps rave energy alive.
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I can envisage a resurgence of the function rather than the style, certainly - there's quite a lot of stuff around that could plausibly fit under a 'music inspired by dance music that's based around home listening and auteurs rather than raving and scenius' banner, with electro, hip hop, techno and acid replaced by jungle, garage, dubstep, minimal etc...I think IDM might be due a revival of sorts. The pendulum swing away from it seems to have reached it's furthest point. Six years ago I knew loads of people making IDM, now i don't know anyone who's doing it.
Need to change the name though. I hate that name, it sounds like an investment bank.
I think IDM might be due a revival of sorts. The pendulum swing away from it seems to have reached it's furthest point. Six years ago I knew loads of people making IDM, now i don't know anyone who's doing it.
I can envisage a resurgence of the function rather than the style, certainly - there's quite a lot of stuff around that could plausibly fit under a 'music inspired by dance music that's based around home listening and auteurs rather than raving and scenius' banner, with electro, hip hop, techno and acid replaced by jungle, garage, dubstep, minimal etc...
Two things about the article - first, the bit about IDM (as it wasn't known at the time) initially going off in the opposite direction from ardkore and then making a wholesale about turn when jungle started getting critical acclaim is a standard view of things but it seems like a pretty big oversimplification if you actually start listening to things like Aphex and Mu-Ziq's EPs on R&S (or other stuff from that period) or the Black Dog's early breakbeat + synth riff stuff - there's a lot more in common with ardkore than many people acknowledge, and a lot more continuity with early drill and bass.
Secondly, I'm beginning to get a bit bored with all these "I barely listen to any dubstep these days but..." type generalisations: "...the remorseless fixation on turgid tempos and sombre moods, an ominousness as unrelieved as it is corny." Great, thanks...
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Need to change the name though. I hate that name, it sounds like an investment bank.
Electronica seems a better term which is a clearer 'middle class' statement without the 'intelligent' insult.
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For some reason this seems the saddest of the bunch. I picture a room of brains sitting on the floor like so much soggy grey porridge, pretending they can have a party without drugs, sex, or bodies.Braindance
idm which is a weird mix of incredibly tight fisted as genre name but also potentially open minded if it wasn't for the uptight people that seem to be the gatekeepers, usually americans.
For some reason this seems the saddest of the bunch. I picture a room of brains sitting on the floor like so much soggy grey porridge, pretending they can have a party without drugs, sex, or bodies.