Dubious as the banner was (and is), under that aegis, some of the most fabulous electronic music of our era came into being. Paul and Descartes to more recent cyber-utopians who dream of abandoning the РІР‚СљmeatРІР‚Сњ and becoming pure spirit.Р”Р„nd yet, and yet. And the notion that abandoning the functional, party-igniting aspect of dance somehow liberated the music and the listener: a privileging of head over body that reinforced biases ingrained from over 2,000 years of Western civilization, from Plato through St. The equation of complexity with cleverness, for instance-what you might call the prog fallacy. Right from the start, IDM was freighted with some problematic assumptions. Equally, millions listen to РІР‚СљsmartРІР‚Сњ sounds like jazz or classical in a mentally inert way, using it as a background ambience of sophistication or uplifting loftiness. What exactly is РІР‚СљintelligenceРІР‚Сњ as manifested in music? Is it an inherent property of certain genres, or more about a mode of listening to any and all music? After all, itРІР‚в„ўs possible to listen to and write about РІР‚СљstupidРІР‚Сњ forms of music with scintillating intellect. By this point, possibly even the folks who coined the term back in 1993-members of an online mailing list mainly consisting of Aphex Twin obsessives-have misgivings about it.Р”Р‡or as a guiding concept, IDM raises way more issues than it settles. PARTY IN MY MIND: THE ENDLESS HALF-LIVES OF IDMР”Р„t the outset, it needs to be said that РІР‚СљIntelligent Dance MusicРІР‚Сњ is-ironically-kind of a stupid name.

Radiohead discography .zip