Can we get rid of IDM

Is it abstract or non-representational?

  On 5/19/2010 at 2:52 AM, chimera slot mom said:

IDM is long overdue for some popularity and chicks, because we need to give it a catchy made-up name, like crunk or *core, but instead, like.. Danzzz, Schwong, Kricko, help me out here.

BRAINDICK

NO fuck NO. Do not call it "abstract techno". I just hate the word abstract

abstep

Just fucking call it whatever you want...

1994DM

I call it doof doof.

ibm

superb dance music. ohhhhhhhhhhh yeeeaaaaa *kool-aid guy busts thru wall*

it is here, it is queer, move on...

  On 5/19/2010 at 2:12 AM, vamos scorcho said:

i like abstract techno a shit ton

this isn't too bad. but really....IDM is perfectly fine, yikes.

  On 5/19/2010 at 5:08 AM, xxx said:

I mean, add what you like but my central tenant appears to be lawful at this point.

hahahahaha

Also, I just call it "electronic music."

Electronic Music That Is Cooler Than What Most People Like.

EMTICTWMPL

Emtictwoplemuzik!

  On 5/19/2010 at 7:19 AM, sidewinder said:

Electronic Music That Is Cooler Than What Most People Like.

 

EMTICTWMPL

 

Emtictwoplemuzik!

Well yes, that's the acronym I use when people press the question about exactly what kind of electronic music.

I think if I say "not lady gaga", that leaves it blatantly obvious what I'm talking about.

NLG

IDM is music for people with mental and psychological disorders, I think it should be banned.

Threads been done so often I can't even think of anything stupid to say that hasn't been said

Alternative Electronic Music

We don't really need to label it...

No matter how we might explain it to distant relatives, they all think we make techno music.

  On 5/19/2010 at 12:28 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

electronic music

 

experimental electronic music.

the term 'experimental' is only slightly less annoying than the term 'indie'

I'm trying xxx... I'm trying to come up with a new genre name but I'm just getting a bunch of dull references to cocks and other watmm memes. Yours was good, you took the mental disorder angle and expanded on it, it was hot

How bout SWFMBT (Stop it With Fucking Music Branding Techno)

I'm really not a fan of the word 'experimental', it's too easily abused. First, what's experimental at all about the vast majority of IDM? Most of it is just modal noodling with some electronic drums and chopped up samples. The genre is pretty much established now, it's hardly experimental. Not a fan of the word abstract either.. because well, music has always pretty much been an abstract (non-representational) art form

How about Modal Noodling With Beats For Repressed Nerdlings

  On 5/19/2010 at 12:46 PM, xxx said:

  On 5/19/2010 at 10:53 AM, vasio said:

IDM is music for people with mental and psychological disorders, I think it should be banned.

Yes, this reminds me--we should call it DSMBeat or DSMcore*

 

*From the Diagnostic and Stastical Manual of Mental Disorders Edition IV Text Revised--the psychiatric "Bible" from which psychiatrists and other clinicians label the shit out of people. It has 5 axes of diagnosis that go like this:

 

Axis I: Major Mental and Learning Disorders

Axis II: Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation

Axis III: Acute Medical Conditions and Physical Disorders

Axis IV: Psychosocial and Environmental Contributing Factors

Axis V: "Global Assessment of Functioning"--(a shrink's overall index of how they think

you get along and your chances of recovery)

 

I had to these all the time in CPRC assessments when I was a case manager--I'd put the typical IDM producer/listener as:

 

I: Autism Spectrum Disorder (High Functioning); Generalized Anxiety Disorder

II: Avoidant Personality Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

III: Polysubstance Abuse/Withdrawal

IV: Deferred

V: 70-61 (scale of 100) Some mild symptoms (e.g., depressed mood and mild insomnia) OR some difficulty in social, occupational, or school functioning (e.g., occasional truancy, or theft within the household), but generally functioning pretty well, has some meaningful interpersonal relationships.

 

Whaddya think, eh? Don't think you're exempt. To a shrink, we all register somewhere on the axes and before you know it, you have all kinds of billable ICD-10 codes, believe me, I'm in the business and I'm not just the president, I'm a client as well hahahahaHAHAHAha...ha....ahem.

 

  On 5/19/2010 at 10:54 AM, Coalbucket PI said:

Threads been done so often I can't even think of anything stupid to say that hasn't been said

It's tough but you have to push through. Nothing good, like a good snare rush or cricket like "glitch hats", comes easy.

Haha, I've always wondered if a Psychiatrist, or anyone who works with human behaviour, are silently analyzing you while your speaking to them.

But then again it would hard not to do it.

I guess IEM has already been suggested.

  On 5/19/2010 at 2:19 AM, vamos scorcho said:

idm has always just meant abstract techno

For people who don't get it.