Emotional Intelligence - a guide to melodic IDM

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The heady style is best known for its difficulty. Marked by tangled rhythms and twisted timbres, it grew out of the brow-furrowing, convoluted example set by artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre in the early '90s. It's ironic, then, that classic IDM is often so drenched in tear-jerking melodies. But it also makes sense that such aggressive crunch and soft-focus sentimentalism would go together so well; the silvery, sparkling leads are the spoonful of sugar that helps all that broken glass go down. These are the tracks tomorrow's androids may sing to themselves as they love, hurt, and reminisce.

http://pitchfork.com/features/pitchfork-essentials/9702-emotional-intelligence-a-guide-to-melodic-idm/

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By the turn of the millennium, Autechre's experiments would lead them down a Teflon-coated rabbit hole of slippery rhythms, sometimes at the expense of emotion. But their early work is expressive enough to make up for it. Case in point: this exquisitely melancholy fusion of chirping rhythms and humanoid coos from 1994's Anti EP, a protest against the British government's Criminal Justice Bill, which banned raves and squashed civil liberties.

  On 8/15/2015 at 9:53 AM, hello spiral said:

 

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By the turn of the millennium, Autechre's experiments would lead them down a Teflon-coated rabbit hole of slippery rhythms, sometimes at the expense of emotion. But their early work is expressive enough to make up for it. Case in point: this exquisitely melancholy fusion of chirping rhythms and humanoid coos from 1994's Anti EP, a protest against the British government's Criminal Justice Bill, which banned raves and squashed civil liberties.

 

 

  On 8/15/2015 at 10:03 AM, triachus said:

 

  On 8/15/2015 at 9:53 AM, hello spiral said:

 

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By the turn of the millennium, Autechre's experiments would lead them down a Teflon-coated rabbit hole of slippery rhythms, sometimes at the expense of emotion. But their early work is expressive enough to make up for it. Case in point: this exquisitely melancholy fusion of chirping rhythms and humanoid coos from 1994's Anti EP, a protest against the British government's Criminal Justice Bill, which banned raves and squashed civil liberties.

 

 

I bet this guy never heard anything after Confield,oh big idm lord be mercy with his dump soul

Did murphy write this?

The title already made my stomach turn.

Man feelings

  On 8/15/2015 at 11:08 AM, Verdant Hickies said:

Did murphy write this?

The title already made my stomach turn.

lol

hey pitchfork:

imo pitchfork lost the right to talk about Autechre

...and neither should you.

I like what weird terms non-music journalists invent to say something that could be said much easier by using the right musical terms

When Pitch4k speaks,

WATMM s

  On 8/15/2015 at 10:57 AM, Kavinsky said:

I bet this guy never heard anything after Confield,oh big idm lord be mercy with his dump soul

the reviewer back in the day gave it a 8.8

I don't agree with the autechre quote but ok list, some under-appreciated artists on there

  On 8/15/2015 at 10:35 AM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 8/15/2015 at 10:03 AM, triachus said:

 

  On 8/15/2015 at 9:53 AM, hello spiral said:

 

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By the turn of the millennium, Autechre's experiments would lead them down a Teflon-coated rabbit hole of slippery rhythms, sometimes at the expense of emotion. But their early work is expressive enough to make up for it. Case in point: this exquisitely melancholy fusion of chirping rhythms and humanoid coos from 1994's Anti EP, a protest against the British government's Criminal Justice Bill, which banned raves and squashed civil liberties.

 

 

 

IDM nerds in uproar over Pitchfork shitposting, more news at eleven

Well, hello spiral derailed the topic immediately and successfully.

talk shit, get hit.

  On 8/15/2015 at 8:44 PM, joshuatx said:

 

 

lol

The Official WATMM Reaction GIF Thread

Funny that the list jumps from 2000 to 2008 missing arguably the best melodic IDM stuff