Comments on: IDM http://thethingis.co.uk/2008/02/17/idm/ A magazine of cultural commentary and creative writing Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:37:01 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Simmons http://thethingis.co.uk/2008/02/17/idm/comment-page-1/#comment-71 John Simmons Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:16:38 +0000 http://www.thethingis.co.uk/index.php/2008/02/17/idm/#comment-71 Totally clueless article, as you can see from how many times "IDM" comes up, rather than any facts Aphex Twin's music is called "electronic music". It defines his career from start to present IDM is the American fan culture of Aphex Twin and Warp Records, spread by the IDM list and WATMM.com The Americans don't get it. Never have. Start writing about Aphex Twin in the context of electronic music, and a good quality article will write itself IDM is dead, because it was a shit name spread by Americans, and the associated thinking that goes with such a shitty name causes shit music like glitchy I.D.M. Kid 606 to spray out of an old grandma's arsehole The ancient greeks generated electricity from Amber, the name of that Autechre album is a reference to electronics, as in "electronic music", get it? :P Totally clueless article, as you can see from how many times “IDM” comes up, rather than any facts

Aphex Twin’s music is called “electronic music”. It defines his career from start to present

IDM is the American fan culture of Aphex Twin and Warp Records, spread by the IDM list and WATMM.com The Americans don’t get it. Never have.

Start writing about Aphex Twin in the context of electronic music, and a good quality article will write itself

IDM is dead, because it was a shit name spread by Americans, and the associated thinking that goes with such a shitty name causes shit music like glitchy I.D.M. Kid 606 to spray out of an old grandma’s arsehole

The ancient greeks generated electricity from Amber, the name of that Autechre album is a reference to electronics, as in “electronic music”, get it? :P

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