IDM Funeral

I was just thinking... can we have a funeral for the term 'intelligent dance music', like they did for the word 'nigger' in Detroit?

my friend, you're about 13 years too late.

now is not a good time

Am I? Well, the aforementioned event in Detroit certainly never stopped the usage of that word.

also it's like KFC now. it stands for nothing.

I think Braindance is a more elegant name. Acronyms just suck in general.

Uncle, please. Nobody uses the term IDM unironically, so it's ok. :pbr:

I remember in the early 1990s Rick Rubin staged a funeral for the word def when he changed Def American to just American.

As you can see today Def Jam never fully recovered.

Braindance does not imply that other kinds of electronic music are brainless. It just means that it's the kind of electronic music that you sit down and listen to, not the kind that you go to a club and dance to. Really you could turn anything into an insult if you let your fear of intellectual elitism get too overpowered.

I can't get on board with the whole 'dance' thing.

Usually I'll just say 'electronic music' or 'experimental electronic music' if I'm trying to impress a girl.

seriousbeardstroke musicks

Can some brit confirm/refute this for me:

I always thought that dance was in there because electronic music (and related stuff) was just generally called dance music in england. Is that at all true. I remember finding 3 Commissions by Mira Calix in the dance section in a cd store in Oxford.

  On 3/24/2010 at 5:32 PM, Root5 said:

Can some brit confirm/refute this for me:

 

I always thought that dance was in there because electronic music (and related stuff) was just generally called dance music in england. Is that at all true. I remember finding 3 Commissions by Mira Calix in the dance section in a cd store in Oxford.

Electronic music is generally called "dance" music in the states too, for the most part. That's one reason the term IDM is still so commonly used...because it ain't dance music so people don't want to call it that. I hate the term "electronica" and refuse to use it except for acts like Chemical Brothers, Chrystal Method, etc. I stick with simply "electronic" for the most part. I quit saying "experimental electronic" a long time ago, because let's face it, most of it simply isn't experimental anymore.

Braindance does make the most sense, really. It's just hard to actually get used to using the term as a genre.

I use the term IDM (not as intelligent dance music, just... IDM) because it's the only way I can think to describe alot of the artists that fall under that label. And it doesn't sound as retarded as braindance.

  On 3/24/2010 at 5:31 PM, baph said:

seriousbeardstroke musicks

I say IDM because I'm used to it.

  On 3/24/2010 at 6:26 PM, xxx said:

  On 3/24/2010 at 5:26 PM, Root5 said:

Really you could turn anything into an insult if you let your fear of intellectual elitism get too overpowered.

huh...that's a pretty nice quote. Assuming you didn't lift it, you should just publish a single essay so you can say "I'm an essayist like Mencken" and then submit that to one of those quote compendiums for some cash money.

 

P.S. I'm not being trolly or facetious, I am irl impressed no homo.

Lol? It's not that original an idea. I think there's a Kurt Vonnegut short story about a distopia where fit people wear weights to slow them down so fat people don't feel bad, and smart people wear earphones that shatter their thought processes temporarily so dumb people don't feel bad, and pretty people wear ugly masks so ugly people don't feel bad.

When people rail against the words IDM and braindance, it just makes me think they have an inferiority complex.

EDIT: btw I think you're a cool guy xxx and like reading your posts. I'm not trying to be trolly either.

i have no issue with the word IDM or Braindance

my old roomate made me promise that I would create the soundtrack to his funeral

i like calling it BSM beard stroking music

bsdm: beard stroking dance music.

it's perfect. let's rename watmm to bsdmforum.com.

why do you have to put 'dance' in there...

  On 3/24/2010 at 10:17 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

why do you have to put 'dance' in there...

go to google, type in bsdm, hit i'm feeling lucky.