Right from the start, IDM was freighted with some problematic assumptions. Equally, millions listen to “smart” sounds like jazz or classical in a mentally inert way, using it as a background ambience of sophistication or uplifting loftiness. What exactly is “intelligence” as manifested in music? Is it an inherent property of certain genres, or more about a mode of listening to any and all music? After all, it’s possible to listen to and write about “stupid” forms of music with scintillating intellect. By this point, possibly even the folks who coined the term back in 1993-members of an online mailing list mainly consisting of Aphex Twin obsessives-have misgivings about it.įor as a guiding concept, IDM raises way more issues than it settles. PARTY IN MY MIND: THE ENDLESS HALF-LIVES OF IDMĪt the outset, it needs to be said that “Intelligent Dance Music” is-ironically-kind of a stupid name.
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