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Intelligent Dance Music

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Dancerev889

Ok so I get an email about a party in Philadelphia from some guy I have never heard from. He promotes that they are going to play intelligent dance music. So I email him back to explain what intelligent dance music is. He comes back and says the music you dont hear on the radio. I come back and say well we play dance music and start rattling off songs and DJ's on the station. His response was "oh"

Gotta love the purists.
 
Dancerev889 said:
Ok so I get an email about a party in Philadelphia from some guy I have never heard from. He promotes that they are going to play intelligent dance music. So I email him back to explain what intelligent dance music is. He comes back and says the music you dont hear on the radio. I come back and say well we play dance music and start rattling off songs and DJ's on the station. His response was "oh"

Gotta love the purists.
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oh.
 
Dancerev889 said:
Ok so I get an email about a party in Philadelphia from some guy I have never heard from. He promotes that they are going to play intelligent dance music. So I email him back to explain what intelligent dance music is. He comes back and says the music you dont hear on the radio. I come back and say well we play dance music and start rattling off songs and DJ's on the station. His response was "oh"

Gotta love the purists.
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We're trying to do what we can to change that thinking this year. I'm not saying that the purists are wrong to enjoy and love dance music for what it is, (deep down I'm a purist) but at the same time we HAVE to embrace what is going on right now with the pop/R&B artists crossing over to the dance music side. Once people can at least be tolerant to that, can our genre grow further as more potential fans come out of this. :)
 
It's intriguing how the word purist(s) has become the norm when discussing the dance sound of today as oppose to what some still want it to be. It's a word that I threw around plenty on the freestyle boards four years ago and then on here because it was fitting.

Dance music has definitely turn the corner and it's about to fly with leaps and bounds this year. The purists can't be called that anymore because the edgier dance sounds are on pop songs now. So if you're not feeling what's out there then you are just a non conformist.
 
IDM is a bit of a pretentious term, but it's brought us some great records over the years, and its artists have done an amazing job of experimenting, and fusing new sounds and concepts into Dance music. I think for Dance purists in general the artist matters as much as the sound of a record.

Purists are likely to be into great songs such as "What Else Is There" by Royksopp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XVUyEI_0AU&ob=av2em

Hybrid "Higher Than A Skyscraper"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXJzrZBv1E&feature=related

Trentemoller "Moan"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VuyU4SdmCk&feature=related

M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade "Body Language"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EJkEgIvfU4&feature=related

Basically artists who were heavily influenced by 80s New Wave, 70s Avant Gard/Progressive Rock, or from Ambient music. Artists often associated with intelligent Dance music produce some form Progressive House, Atmospheic EDM, minimal Techno, or some other form of alternative form of Techno-Dance.

As for the term IDM, it was coined by some journalists and artists in the early to mix 90s. Older IDM examples include

Future Sound of London "Papua New Guinea"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIFjtRsQeA&feature=fvst

Age of Love "Age of Love (Jam & Spoon Remix)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9pH9C7Oew

Crossover IDM records include
Faithless "Take The Long Way Home"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS2BvhjCx3E

My personal favorite IDM record of alltime is
James Holden "I Have Put Out The Light"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1bI5V-0rg
 
I don't think it's supposed to make you intelligent - rather it's about the intelligent process involved in creating a track.
Rather than following a trendy template, or a by-the-numbers formula, these are artists that have put some original thought into production.
The end results aren't always mass-appeal, but it's music that you grow to appreciate, and where it pays to listen to a track in its entirety.
 
CHRles said:
I don't think it's supposed to make you intelligent - rather it's about the intelligent process involved in creating a track.
Rather than following a trendy template, or a by-the-numbers formula, these are artists that have put some original thought into production.
The end results aren't always mass-appeal, but it's music that you grow to appreciate, and where it pays to listen to a track in its entirety.
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I was being sarcastic. If thats how you have to sell your venue, theres a problem.
 
Dancerev889 said:
CHRles said:
I don't think it's supposed to make you intelligent - rather it's about the intelligent process involved in creating a track.
Rather than following a trendy template, or a by-the-numbers formula, these are artists that have put some original thought into production.
The end results aren't always mass-appeal, but it's music that you grow to appreciate, and where it pays to listen to a track in its entirety.
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I was being sarcastic. If thats how you have to sell your venue, theres a problem.
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oh.
 
Dancerev889 said:
CHRles said:
I don't think it's supposed to make you intelligent - rather it's about the intelligent process involved in creating a track.
Rather than following a trendy template, or a by-the-numbers formula, these are artists that have put some original thought into production.
The end results aren't always mass-appeal, but it's music that you grow to appreciate, and where it pays to listen to a track in its entirety.
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I was being sarcastic. If thats how you have to sell your venue, theres a problem.
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And yet, some of the IDM artists are well knowm, have sold pretty well, and received plenty of airplay support (primarily from non-commercial College stations)
 
Morpheux said:
Dance music has definitely turn the corner and it's about to fly with leaps and bounds this year. The purists can't be called that anymore because the edgier dance sounds are on pop songs now. So if you're not feeling what's out there then you are just a non conformist.
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In many ways, true. Thinking about it I may be a purist in terms of knowing the origins and being a core fan, but I am also accepting the pop/r&b/rhythmic angle knowing that it's going to do our genre good. So in that sense I am conforming, but for those that aren't and be insistent about their sounds, that will hurt more than help. I have a few members on the coalition that are like that (non conformist) At the very least, through education, I am hoping that those members can come to some sort of middle ground that way things CAN get better for our music as a whole.
 
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