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
