This week IDM genre has been declared dead. What is IDM? Well that debate is about the only thing that kept the genre alive. The general consensus is that the sounds of Aphex Twin could abbreviate most of the IDM scene.
I remember picking up an Aphex record for the first time, taking it to the turntable in the shop, placing the needle on the record, the head phones on my head and then feeling my eyes begin to water with excitement.
This was it! No longer would I be subjected to hours of boggling trance or bam bam jungle. The "new sound" was going to be this: white noise on crack, microwaves at war with blenders, edgy messed up textures that would reduce dance floors to crawling around on hands and knees screaming. Yes!
I was mostly wrong, but I was not completely mislead. When dance music hit the scene it was something crazy new, it was like this freak zone of sounds & noise beamed in from the outer asteroid belt.
It was as different from everything else as you could imagine. Based on this initial transition into a new world I expected dance music to continue streaming into the unknown. A continual journey into new sounds, new experience.
However as it turns out it was more like a short sharp shunt. A leap sideways, an alternate world not moving away but in parallel to everything I knew.
Still, I miss that feeling in the headphones, hearing Apexh Twin carefully crawling inside my head to carve out a new universe of possibility.
