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I'm not a musician, but I love `Selected Ambient Works 85–92`. It sounds way ahead of its time.

Also one of my all time favorite albums. Used to fall asleep to it at night. Id put it on, close my eyes and just let the music drive my imagination.

Best EDM album ever, I’d say.

EDM isn’t a catch all term for all electronic music

Yeah he's IDM not EDM, IDM is a older term from the 90s they called it "intelligent dance music" because it uses the tools of dance music but just like you could dance to Duke Ellington but nobody danced to Charlie Parker you can't exactly dance to music as complex as his but it enjoyable listening for sure.

> Yeah he's IDM not EDM, IDM is a older term from the 90s they called it "intelligent dance music"

AKA "beard stroking music" in the D&B world.

It's music that doesn't energize people and get them on the dance floor. Go see a IDM/"experimental/"beard stroking" DJ live, all you see are a bunch of young male hipsters standing around stroking their beards, commenting on the uniqueness of the "interplay".

Sounds very similar to the reasoning behind the "shoegaze" genre name. All of the above of which I'm a big fan! Guess I like heady music, more recently have seen IDM described as braindance as well.

I think the brandance name came about when replhex records tried to re-brand the genera to get away from the smugness of calling your favored music 'intelligent.' That said, I definitely see the IDM label around more than Brandance.

The etymology seems to be the same, but I've also heard people classify Deftones as "shoegaze", which makes zero sense to me.

Funny enough, “my music is more danceable” was the exact RDJ's argument is the little (indirect) exchange with Stockhausen.

It's also commonly laughed at in the UK. We typically see it as an Americanism that is a sort-of catch-all for different genres of electronic music. When Aphex first came out it was under the genre/banner of "Braindance" (remember that? :)). He has used quite a few genres since, though.

Apparently it became so for many Americans, who didn't have an "electronic music" in the mainstream in the 80s and 90s, and early "00s".

They'd use the term EDM now for anything, including Nitzer Ebb and Autechre...

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