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most of the artists you listed range from not to slightly IDM though

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Yeah I don't really see a common connector between them beyond being electronic

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the way I see it the main thing that separates IDM from ambient techno is the heavily syncopated rhythms influenced by glitch and breakbeat

which would make BoC a very poor example of IDM

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Perhaps idm and edm are being debated so much because both are poor descriptors that don't really define anything, especially edm.

i mean i literally said that so yes

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electronic dancing monthly told me that idm isn't real.

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i much prefer the term braindance but even that leaves a sour taste.



i describe it to anyone not plugged into the scene as "electronic music that wasn't really made for dancing" lmao

i just love that within the realm electronic if you aren't dancing it's intellectual chin-strokery by default like thats the most pretentious shit ever lmao

or the idea that intelligently dancing = not dancing

dancing is for brutes

this is the thinking man's electronic music right here

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I thought it was agreed on that idm and edm are silly, nonsensical terms and not real genres. However they are all over the place when it comes to categorizing electronic music so I was just trying to see if there was any validity to them someone could prescribe, and the answer is there isn't.

also BoC is like the best band to interpretive dance to of all time and no one can tell me otherwise

"I thought it was agreed on that idm and edm are silly, nonsensical terms and not real genres. However they are all over the place when it comes to categorizing electronic music so I was just trying to see if there was any validity to them someone could prescribe, and the answer is there isn't."

yep, just terrible buzzwords gone rampant

"also BoC is like the best band to interpretive dance to of all time and no one can tell me otherwise"

can confirm dancing to boc in my friends living room high off our asses like a bunch of goofs is my favorite past time

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in their defense, pretty much every artist who gets tagged as IDM hates the tag, for the same reasons you just stated.

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The whole "dance" part is funny too, like I imagine dancing to these kinds of artists is akin to trying to headbang to Meshuggah.

bands like autechre deserve to be called intelligent dance music very facetiously tho, thats what they get for being the way that they done b

who wants to get high and pretend to be a blossoming tree to You Could Feel The Sky with me

and you know what i could absolutely throw the fuck down to something like Happy Cycling