Define "IDM".

>>74737314
FlyLo and STRFKR

>>74737314
That's is the most random list of artists going. Fuck Wikipedia.

>>74737314
dance music, but it's intelligent

Shitty term used to describe a loose collective of 90s artists on Warp, Skam, Planet Mu etc and other artists who take direct influence from them.

>>74737336
What defines the intelligence?

>>74737372
american journalists

>>74737371
Like Tycho

>>74737372

The amount of sounds going off at once and how they're layered in a way where it doesn't sound like static I assume.

>>74737379
But Americans are stupid

>>74737383
How does that cover all the downtempo artists in the list just making ambient with a beat?

>>74737314
It's a joke genre similar to the category of shoegaze, invented by critics to make it easier in categorising a lot of disparate artists under the same blanket term. Generic conventions don't really apply to either – you could claim the former is defined by complex time signatures, microtonal pitching and extensive audio manipulation, just as you could say the latter is typified by its sugar-syrupy, noise-drenched pop sensibilities, but neither of those are 'definitions' and neither lay out a base theoretical framework which one could work under the label

>>74737314
IDM, like Acid House, Bleep Techno, and Breakbeat Hardcore, is one of Britain's failed attempts to imitate Detroit Techno.

>>74738465
unlike memerap which the UK copied Jamaican MCs and took hip hop breakbeats and made them good with hardcore, jungle an d&b

>>74738520
>and made them good
debatable