Editing Intelligent dance music (section)

==Criticism of the term==
British [[electronic music]] and [[techno]] artists typically categorized as IDM, including [[Aphex Twin]], [[Cylob]], and [[Mike Paradinas]] (A.K.A. μ-Ziq), have variously criticised the term. Paradinas has stated that the term was only used in North America; criticism has often been dominated by the use of the term "intelligent" in the genre name, and also often calls attention to the fact that artists working under this name often produce music that is contrarily not easy to dance to.

''[[AllMusic|AllMusic Guide]]'' describes the IDM name as<blockquote>A loaded term meant to distinguish electronic music of the '90s and later that's equally comfortable on the dancefloor as in the living room, IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) eventually acquired a good deal of negative publicity, not least among the legion of dance producers and fans whose exclusion from the community prompted the question of whether they produced "Stupid" dance music.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/idm-ma0000004477 IDM page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223153957/http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/idm-ma0000004477 |date=23 December 2014 }} at [[AllMusic]]</ref></blockquote> In a September 1997 interview, [[Aphex Twin]] commented on the 'Intelligent Dance Music' label:
<blockquote>I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music. (laughs) It makes me laugh, things like that. I don't use names. I just say that I like something or I don't.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.furious.com/perfect/aphextwin.html|title=Aphex Twin interview- Perfect Sound Forever|website=Furious.com|access-date=5 September 2020|archive-date=11 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611121559/http://www.furious.com/perfect/aphextwin.html|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

[[Aphex Twin]]'s [[Rephlex Records]] official overarching genre name is "braindance", of which Dave Segal of Stylus Magazine asked whether it was a "snide dig at IDM's mockworthy Intelligent Dance Music tag?"<ref>{{cite web|title=''Rephlexions!: A Braindance Compilation''|date=20 November 2003|author=Dave Segal|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/various-artists/rephlexions-a-braindance-compilation.htm|website=Stylusmagazine.com|access-date=5 September 2020|archive-date=11 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311004019/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/various-artists/rephlexions-a-braindance-compilation.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2003, [[Kid606]] said that<blockquote>It's a label invented by PR companies who need catchphrases. I like sounds, but hate what people attach to sounds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mpiii.com/UpDownload-index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-1853.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930005410/http://www.mpiii.com/UpDownload-index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-1853.html|url-status=dead|title=Kid606 Ultrahang festival|archive-date=30 September 2007|access-date=5 September 2020}}</ref></blockquote>

[[Matmos]] remarked in [[Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)|''Perfect Sound Forever'']] that
<blockquote>I belong to the weblist called "IDM" and occasionally enjoy the discussions there, because I like some of the artists who get lassoed into that category (not to mention that we, occasionally, are lumped into that category too), and because you can occasionally find out about interesting records on that list... Matmos is IDM if that only means "might be talked about on the IDM list"- but I don't endorse that term "intelligent dance music" because it's laughable.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.furious.com/perfect/matmos.html |title=Matmos interview |last=Pozo |first=Carlos M. |date=September 1999 |website=Furious.com |access-date=4 June 2021 |quote=That said, I belong to the weblist called "IDM" and occasionally enjoy the discussions there, because I like some of the artists who get lassoed into that category (not to mention that we, occasionally, are lumped into that category too), and because you can occasionally find out about interesting records on that list. Like any other community, it allows for networking and exchange of information which is really useful and productive and powerful- but like any community, it always needs to define itself through exclusion, clique-ishness and the fashioning of some "other" excluded terms: rock music, women, noise, "real" dance music. I've noticed that whenever discussions drift towards anything about gender or sexuality on that list the cluelessness factor jumps off the chart. Matmos is IDM if that only means "might be talked about on the IDM list"- but I don't endorse that term "intelligent dance music" because it's laughable. |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506230523/http://www.furious.com/perfect/matmos.html |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>

In a 2016 interview with ''[[Resident Advisor]]'', Sean Booth of [[Autechre]] said: <blockquote>All these things about us being "intelligent" and the term "IDM" are just silly. I'm not a particularly intelligent person, me. I'm diligent, I'm pretty hardworking, but I'm not that clever. I ain't got any qualifications, I just pick up stuff that I think is interesting at the time...There was also the "Artificial Intelligence" tag that Warp coined, but to me as a listener that never seemed to be saying "this is more intelligent." It was just a signifier of it being sci-fi music...Thing is, almost all the artists on that first AI compilation are just like us, they were regular kids, they're not intelligent people particularly. Richard [D. James] is a fucking blagger, [[Richie Hawtin]] too... I don't know how the fuck he gets away with the things he does!<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756|title=Review: Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4|last=Muggs|first=Joe|date=6 June 2016|work=Resident Advisor|access-date=2018-05-18|archive-date=26 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526220343/https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756|url-status=live}}</ref> </blockquote>

Responding to some of these criticisms, Mike Brown of [[Hyperreal.org]] commented in 2018, <blockquote>Even in '93 to 4' the word "IDM" wasn't something any of us took seriously. It was just three letters with no particular meaning beyond our little nerdy community's way of referring to whatever music we liked from the fringes of electronic dance music. No one was intending to coin a genre name or to imply the artists and fans were geniuses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/idm-list-25-year-anniversary-warp-hyperreal-2018/|title=The IDM List Gave Intelligent Dance Music Its Name and Geeky Legacy|author=Sam Davies|date=1 August 2018|work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|access-date=3 May 2020|archive-date=2 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502055616/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/7xq4ga/idm-list-25-year-anniversary-warp-hyperreal-2018|url-status=live}}</ref> </blockquote>