Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: > here's the problem: IDM has gone from being more traditionally > techno/ambient based in the early 90's to being a reaction against > just about anything they feel like going against, mostly melody > and rhythm as far as i can tell. it seems (to me at least) that > its just on this course of making music as > mathematically "complex" as possible while becoming increasingly > unlistenable.
I would like to disagree! You label IDM (here we go again with this horrible name) as one type of sound, while it is so divers! Of course, there is the "mathematical sounding music" by the likes of Autechre, Richard Divine, Funkstorung, but there is so much more! Listen to things on City Centre Offices, Bola, Plaid, Christ, L'Usine, things on Toytronic, all beautiful music with plenty of melody and rather 'normal' beats. Why does music always have to be labeled? If you heve heard all the music containing this genre, than you can make a statement, otherwise please don't! Remco Doorewaard
