Re: [microsound] Death of electronic music (disco reflections)

[chthonic streams <chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hmm, so would you say New Order is "Intelligent Dance Music"? :)

bingo!

what other dance music has lyrics that ponder staying in rather than 
going out, consider one's true nature versus the image everyone else 
sees, or are so arrestingly vague you're left wondering about them 
long after the song's stopped playing?

and unlike most of what is called IDM, you can actually dance to it.

>  > Subject: Re: [microsound] Death of electronic music (disco reflections)
> >  Message-Id: <p05210600be11ce450eea@[64.63.223.128]>
> >
> >  >One thing about the electronic music in discos and other clubs: They
> >  >are not meant to reflect our time >and future. Or help us understand
> >  >something deeper about those issues. It is pure entertainment.
> >
> >  there are exceptions of course.  the main one coming to mind being new
> >  order.
>  > d.

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