On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Robert Taylor wrote: > Excuse my ignorance but what the F*** is IDM? I've seen mentioned over and > over again but only on Yank sites. > IDM started off as a mailing list in the early nineties, gradually becoming something of a movement. It is definitely not a genre as such, it is just a mailing list that used to concentrate on artists like The Black Dog, B12, Autechre, The Aphex Twin, Speedy J, Orbital etc. and labels like B12, A13, RePHLeX, Warp, Likemind, Ifach, GPR, Clear etc. Nowadays it has regressed into more noise than signal, though you can get some idea what's going on by sifting through an SMTP-load of drivel.
Let's reiterate: IDM is a mailing list, not a genre. US people seem to have adopted Electronica as a marketing term to describe a loose genre that includes some artists and groups discussed on IDM, though Electronica seems to be a superset with more commercial inclusions. The name itself is a misnomer, there is as much lack of intelligence on IDM as within any self-defined subculture. This is not to say that there aren't any intelligent people on the list, just that defining IDM through itself as "intelligent" the point becomes lost. That's why I think of IDM nowadays as just a non-expandable acronym. Cheers (from an IDM member since 1994), -- nuutti-iivari meriläinen gordon at diversion dot org http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
