What on earth is IDM? "Intelligent dance music" doesn't really describe the style of music at all.
because at this time, no one would have gotten the reference if they called it "Fedora Dance Music".
>>60642116
T h i s f a m
>>60642116
why is it called dance music at all? I've never heard any IDM that was even remotely danceable.
>>60642112
Think of it this way, the tempo is something that is so precise and kept up that it sounds like something a human couldn't do, it's "intelligent"
>>60642112
music that people who feel like they are superior to everybody else listen to
it's really defined by the people
>>60642130
Sure looks dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBaEEODzU0
It's glitchy electro basically.
>>60642490
IDM is nothing like glitchy Drexciya.
A lot of IDM producers don't even like the term, its just anything kind of unusual beat-driven electronic music
It's not a genre of music, it's a bullshit term invented by the press to label club influenced music that doesn't really work in a club setting. Out of all the more prominent artists that are related to that label, none of them considers their music intelligent or in most cases even dance music.
>>60642627
>club influenced music that doesn't really work in a club setting
Isn't that downtempo/chillout?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtempo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chill-out_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_downtempo_artists
It's Bernie approved electronic music
>>60642648
Sure but there are also lots of higher tempo music that's not made to be dancefloor-friendly and often gets the IDM-tag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FTsPCwu8Ro
>>60642689
The division between tempo and what can be used on the dancefloor is subjective though.
Half the stuff posted in /bleep/ is too slow for me in a club setting.
>>60642708
A lot of IDM has some intricate, non-repetitive beats that doesnt make it the most obvious club choice, but it is of course very subjective.
Can we make a petition to rename IDM to MEME? (Much Electronic Music Experiments)
Because it makes your brain dance.
>>60642130
because it is all based off of dance music styles.... most of it is danceable.... aphex twin made distorted less melodic versions of house and techno popular dance music styles at the time... drill and bass or breakcore might be impossible to dance to but are based off of jungle and breakbeat dance styles...
>>60642490
okay doctor idm thank you
>>60642648
downtempo and chillout is played in clubs all the time, in "chillout lounges" and the like or in other rooms of the club.
>>60642116
it was literally this, a condescending joke back in the day.
I read an interview about some label guy at Warp who hated the tag because the meaning didn't have anything to do with the music.
Intelligent Dance Music, most commonly known as IDM, is a term invented in the early 1990s to describe the sound of a number of electronic musicians who sought to develop dance music beyond the clubs and more into the realm of home listening. The term itself has been the subject of intense criticism, with many citing the "Intelligent" portion as elitist in nature. Aphex Twin, an artist frequently cited as a pioneer of the scene, stated in a 1997 interview: “I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music.” Regardless of the arguments surrounding its label, many acts enjoyed a strong underground following after the inception of the term, with Sheffield’s Warp Records introducing acts like Autechre, The Orb’s Dr. Alex Paterson, and B12 on its famed (Artificial Intelligence) compilation, as well as a number of artists who would enjoy critical acclaim during the second half of the decade, such as Boards of Canada and Prefuse 73.
By the mid-nineties, IDM’s style tended to veer away from the Techno and House sound that inspired it, with a number of the key figures either choosing to go further down the path of experimentation or employing a much more beat-focused approach to their work. Squarepusher, another one of Warp’s biggest names, combined his typically reckless style of Drum and Bass with a number of techniques more commonly found on Jazz Fusion records, further stretching IDM as a useful descriptor of a particular sound, and making it more of an umbrella term. Attempts have been made to alter the name of the genre and shake off the negative connotations, with Aphex Twin’s “braindance” description of his own music and Warp’s “electronic listening music” proving somewhat popular.
>>60643700
But the point is they aren't intended for the dancefloor, the opposite for chilling out to, rehydrating between dancing or on the beach as the sunrises in Ibiza or Koh Pha Ngan.
Because people got sick of having to write out Neckbeardian Dewtronica
