IDM and Science Fiction

Does liking IDM lean you towards science fiction or does it mean that you simply enjoy moosics generated by modern electronic means?

I like both very much and cant help but link the two and Im aware that many artists think the same way.

Anybody here like IDM but not science fiction?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=v1Xgz6aVItw

yes, idm is the sound of toilets flushing in the new adhocracy of madagascar in the year 2074.

I enjoy science fiction a lot more than IDM. Is there really anything futuristic about IDM? It mostly sounds dated IMHO.

dude no. read accelerando by charles stross while listening to any of phoenecia's albums (echelon mall, I suggest). That shit is the sound of all that is recognizable human being put on the butcher's block by hiveminds, AI's, disembodied consciousness in the form of a flock of starlets...

  On 10/31/2012 at 3:37 PM, zemudene said:

I enjoy science fiction a lot more than IDM. Is there really anything futuristic about IDM? It mostly sounds dated IMHO.

couldn't agree more

LP5 always reminds me of Rama

the sound of the future is a whiskey jug with xxx on the side, & a man in overalls blowing into it rhythmically

Edit: stupid embed. really pissin me off

A lot of IDM reminds me of futuristic car commercials. SCIFI itself doesn't seem inherently musical to me, I don't really make that association but I would bet that there is a big hobby/interest crossover.

All y'all are friggin' daft.

I don't know mang. A bunch of soundscapy IDM basically sounds like sci-fi movie sound effects and farts. So there's always that.

The Amen Break is the quintessential sound of a speed-addled hacker meddling in cyberspace.

I like the IDMs (along with plenty else along the beats-techno-dub spectrum), but can't be arsed with science fiction. Waaay prefer my science non-fiction, stuff like cosmology, natural history, or whether some moons of Saturn could contain liquid water & possibly harbor life. Thinking about how we are all made of stardust from a supernova eons ago melts my brain almost as much as Nuane or Sublimit.

Yeah sci-fi is kinda lame IMO.

Kinda disrespectful to IDM or music in general implying it's the future or somehow not human-made, when in fact these days it's pretty much music of the past and very obviously human-made. Isn't it somehow cooler that two blokes from rochdale were able to make such fantastic sounds that to us evoke unknown landscapes and conceptual spaces heretofore unimagined?

Kraftwerk were on it when they were making odes to man's greatest creations: highways, radios, trains, robotics, computers.

Yeah... everything I say on this board at some point will just dissolve into kraftwerk worship.

Science fiction is good for producing a sense of futuristic soullessness and alienation through overstimulated people and overcapitalized architecture. As a genre though it tends to be a bit meh. Especially the new post-scifi wave of movies about dreams within dreams or looping time or what have you.

/pretentious

I generally grew up listening to electronic music as well as being drawn to sci-fi/futuristic movies and video games. But since I also like several hip hop artists and cult classic films, that probably offsets my nerdiness a bit.

  On 11/1/2012 at 5:57 AM, dr lopez said:

Yeah sci-fi is kinda lame IMO.

 

In my experience, people who think sci-fi is lame tend not to understand the point of it.