>"Intelligent" Dance Music
>it's just techno with breakbeats and acid lines in odd time signatures thrown in

good music but the name is a bit silly, innit? it's like prog rock where you look inside and it's just watered down jazz mashed together with classical influences

>>126716207 (OP)
I just think the pronunciation of idm is neat

>>126716207 (OP)
>techno with breakbeats and acid lines in odd time signatures thrown in
you're making it sound more complicated and interesting than it actually is

>>126716207 (OP)
people have been dunking on the name since 1992

No one with brains takes the IDM label serious

>>126716264
Why do you keep reposting this?

>>126716207 (OP)
dumbasses will look at something knotted and complex and call it genius because they dont know what to make of it

>>126716299

>>126716289
are you scared of the image?

any detroit techno master>afx

no one really likes the "IDM" label to be fair, not even the artists themselves, they often call it silly.

>>126717324
yet no one would swap their afx record collection for any detroit master's

>>126716207 (OP)
>good music but the name is a bit silly, innit?
Yeah, and the musicians themselves thought it was stupid too. Blame the journalists and "critics" in this case.

>>126717566
the name was popularized by an internet mailing list.
the name was considered a joke almost from the beginning.

>>126717590
Even worse!

>>126716207 (OP)
The style was popularized by the Artificial Intelligence compilation from Warp Records, which gave it the more accurate name of "electronic listening music".

>>126716207 (OP)
the ambiental side of IDM is cool
but the other side, with the drums... eh...

>>126717902
that's the one i like. [spoiler]admittedly there's very few artists id consider essential. afx, autechre, wagon christ, and some of vsnares being up there. youre better off moving into more focused genres like prog trance/house or dnb[/spoiler]
the ambient stuff like saw II just makes me go zzzzz

>>126717902
Yeah, I prefer the atmospheric side too. The "rhythmic complexity" shit can get very self-indulgent fast, but it's fantastic when it works.

>>126717943
haven't listened to 'techre in years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmBagKNdlHg

>>126716207 (OP)
Actually, in the case of both IDM and progressive rock, the names are chosen because they both tend toward through-composed, or at the very least much more long-form compositions compared to what's typical of their parent genre.

>>126717104
I'm scared of tits
t. fag

>>126718191
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

>>126716207 (OP)
>guitar

>it's actually just a hunk of wood with metal strings attached

>>126717104
No, it just make you look like a stalker.

>>126717465
only a tourist would say that

>>126725928
Yeah, sure, whatever you say, bro.