Why is it called IDM if you can't dance to it?

Why is it called IDM if you can't dance to it?

because you dance with your brain

damn...

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this never made sense to me
eim would be better name because its still electronic but not very good for dancing

Because its Ironic Dance Music

yeah you'd think they'd be smart enough to make it so you can dance to it

Not that smart, are they

really makes you think...

You're not supposed to dance traditionally.

You go up to a girl and start moving slightly with your body and look her straight in the eyes while smiling.

Fucking virgins.

or maybe you're not smart enough to know how to dance to it... :/

IDM is just techno by retard producers who can't make anything but formless noise
So they pretend that they weren't trying to make dance and wanted to make formless noise

haha :D

It's true

well even AFX has gone on record saying he was just making british techno when the IDM term came about, so it kind of is.

The british are retarded then

tho term is pretentious and fucking stupid it just came out like this to be opposite to electronic dance music, braindance is a better term imo

The term was invented by music journalists and not the people who make or listen to it. The term itself is meaningless, "IDM" can mean a lot of different things from very chill ambient to really aggressively a-tonal stuff to stuff that is quite danceable but just doesn't fit nicely into any of the standard electronic music categorisations. Its worse than "industrial".

It's dance because it is a merely useful deisgnation to call dance music out of stylistic traits such as the loudness of the drums in the mix, their speed, and some other elements. Aso how it'd sound vibrant if played in a mix or event, as opposed to something purely experimental, or ambient.

And inteligent is not so you can scratch the neckbeard and feel superior to nigs jumping around in a basement (although many a cunt behaved like that around it), but because it started getting recognition after the Artificial Inteligence compilation, pic related).

I hate the term though, and just meant to spread the info. Never ever use it, and considder the genre just techno as well. Even because it's much closer to the original intention of techno than 90% of what people consider techno.

Forgot thedamn cover

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Calm down m8 you'll have a hernia. Stop taking Sup Forums so seriously, it's all one big crap shoot y'dig?

You can destroy the dancefloor with Windowlicker tho

this guy is right OP, it's an absolute banger several magnitudes greater than you can envision

Al, is that you?

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