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I posted in the questionnaire topic about IDM not having a real identity outside of the internet. For example if you think of any other musical genre it automatically generates a physical image of the type of person who listens to it, I personally cannot define what the typical IDM (I hate the term but most people will know what I mean) listener looks like. I know from the run ins I have had with people on the board, and also the people I get on with that personalities also seem very varied. Do you think this has anything to do with the diversity of the music, and the fact that IDM seems to cover such a broad band of sounds, styles, textures and moods? |
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yeah, thats exactly what i think. i'll tell you something though, theres a hell of a lot of people who might be said to represent "idm culture" that aren't posting on this board and for that matter have no knowledge of an internet based arm of the culture. the few people i know who listen mainly to aphex twin et al are quite varied in their personalities. none are what i would call musical snobs and seem to listen to a wide variety of music, with "idm" being their main diet. |
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See, I start a serious topic and it just disappears without trace. So I might as well continue being negative. |
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And also maybe because the main IDM audience is from their late teens on, which mainly don`t need to create an identity for themselve and will be rarely concerned to have a certain lifestyle according to the music they listen... Another factor for this diversity may be the lack of attention that this genre got from the media, which contributed to keep the focus on the music rather than on image... Well this is just my opinion... Alot more probable is that IDM is just good music that somehow appeals to everykind of person indescriminately for different reasons...Just like Classical, Jazz...and umh yeah...some pop too I guess ¬_¬ |
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Actually I never considered the age people get involved with IDM, although from my point of view I first started listening to it when I was very early teens and I know quite a few board members are quite young. |
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I started listening IDM when I was 16...so not into the late teens yet... Still I believe that IDM is much more popular between college students rather then HighSchool... I don`t know =\ |
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i'm not too sure about idm being popular with high school students. i got into it through a friend who was getting into it because his uncle gave him saw vol 2 for his birthday completely out of nowhere. and that was when i was fifteen or so. |
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IDM does seem a little broad...seems like for every style of "dance" there is, there's an intelligent sub-category for it. trance breaks down to inteligence by way of autechre, trip-hop breaks down to intelligence by way of "blip-hop" (mouse on mars), experimental/acid has aphex makin an intelligent version of it, drum and bass has squarepusher makin the intelligent side... i dunno, i prolly got those all wrong, i just look at how they're labelled by people who try to label them anything besides IDM |
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