![]() ![]() The final dubbing of artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre as IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) eventually granted this monster its own dominion, though whether this was the intention behind the coinage of the term is a difficult claim to make. This elitism that I speak of, this sense of the music existing in a rarefied realm outside the domain of contemporary popular music, is a largely imposed notion, one born outside the work of the artists, fed and cared for by critics and fans alike, until it grew into a monster used to scare off the average listener. That is not to say that the above mentioned artists helped inculcate this idea, or that their music is somehow guilty of a crime really, quite the contrary. Since the mid-to-late ’90s, when artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre started rising in prominence in the field of electronic music, the genre has gained a certain air of elitism about it. ![]()
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