IDM Subculture

Is there such a thing?

Are there any particular hallmarks of style that are required or is it just some niche slice of a more general electronic music subculture?

Is IDM or electronic music culture ever subversive or essentially, because of links with technology (synths, drum machines, daws) just part of the mainstream commercial music industry? The spectrum from making music for car ad music to diy electronics noise makers. 

I don't really know what I'm asking tbh

Humour me.

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Idm's subversive?! Thatz a stretch

my gender identity is IDM

IDM is a subculture.

IDM isn't just a subculture, it's a state of mind, a lifestyle choice, but more importantly it's whatever you want it to be!

It's like dance music culture but intelligent.

  On 9/28/2017 at 10:12 AM, fletcher said:

IDM is a subculture.

a dead subculture is technically still a subculture

  On 9/28/2017 at 11:45 AM, span said:

 

  On 9/28/2017 at 10:12 AM, fletcher said:

IDM is a subculture.

a dead subculture is technically still a subculture

 

IDM was wasn't even a subculture

  On 9/28/2017 at 10:00 AM, Lewps said:

Where can I buy those? Most effective IDM ad 2017

  On 9/28/2017 at 7:41 AM, hello spiral said:

Autechre : Gantz Graf

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• Avoid as you would  a bald German

 

[a]Autechre[/a] records are purchased solely by bald men in expensive anoraks who would masturbate to a car alarm if it was re-mixed by a German. This impenetrable curtain of misanthropic noise – released with an accompanying three-track DVD that features a squabble of hopelessly pretentious video “interpretations” – is typical of the menopausal electro-manglers’ dogged refusal to bow to convention and produce anything of interest to anyone not either a) bald or b) German. It bleeps. It skronks. It krrraaaanks. But mainly, it blows like a ruddy awful hurricane. Remember, kids; if it sounds like a festering hillock of tune-shy bum-wank, it’s because it IS a festering hillock of tune-shy bum-wank. Avoid as you would a bald German.

Sarah Dempster

 

Is this one of Sean's exes?

i do idm for the rush, the adaptation and the general backwardness of the act

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Subculture term is a marketing ploy to sell protest against social status quo

holy shit who is that?! 

It must be something because OPN is trying to distance himself from it as much as he can

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[–]TheDarrenJones 10 points

1 month ago 

Hey Dan! 

Any chance we will get to hear the batch of tracks you'd initially made for Warp (prior to GoD)? If I remember correctly, you referred to this batch of tracks as your shitty attempt at IDM. WANT TO HEAR!!

Can't wait for next 0PN album and looking forward to Good Time, though your soundtrack stresses me the fuck OUT! Props!

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[–]0neohtrix[S] 51 points

1 month ago 

all my records start out as shitty IDM and then i remember how much i actually dont like IDM that much and everything gets better from there. so you heard it already

antIDM is the new "IDM". Contrariantronica. Post Intelligence electro. Actually, fuck that, it's too complex and ever-evolving for it to be classified with conventional musical taxonomy. His shit is as close to "genreless" as you can get but can't be coined as such because no labels can define it. 

If there are IDM subs there are inevitably IDM cucks

that is if the internet in 2017 is something to believe in

RDJ has a lot to answer for

The subculture is people posting their burgers on watmm.

It's barely even a music genre. There might be an "IDM scene" with loosely associated artists, labels and websites but no subculture defined by a common set of beliefs or fashion style. Just a group of people liking similar kinds of production aesthetics which might have some correlation with other tastes in different areas.

Depends; is autism a subculture?