Mr eel
IDM is Dead?!
IDM is Dead! IDM is dead! Whatever it is, it’s apparently dead. Amazing. It’s the journalists that invented that stupid genre and now they get to proclaim it’s death. How wonderful for them.
If you happen to be a bit of a fan of electronic music, you may have heard the term IDM, and if you’ve read any reviews lately you might have come across the proclamation of it’s death. Maybe I’m being a bit precious, but I’d like to say; well la-dee-da and hooray for music journalism! Thanks for that brilliant, sweeping insight. If you hadn’t pointed it out, I might have kept listening to my Aphex Twin records and ended up as some sort of boring git telling everyone else what to think about music.
For anyone looking for context, it’s this review that got me a bit annoyed. It’s not the first time I’ve read this kinda bollocks — i.e. Micro-house is dead, Disco-punk is dead, Rock is dead — and it always reminds me of what sucks about music journalism. Know it alls dying to tell everyone else what to think.
It also puts what I love about music journalism into sharper relief. It’s always better to hear people talking about what they love and why they love it.
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