intelligent dance music up the khyber

[amw]

There is a certain form of British Ass Fucking Bullshit Techno that is called Intelligent Dance Music (IDM). I mean, it used to be called IDM. My knowledge of genre hairsplitting is at least 20 years out of date. Caring about what genre a song should be classified under is very teenager-y

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[amw]

There is a certain subgenre of metal that i think that i like, but i don't know enough to identify it. I think it's power metal? It's the one where there are lots of epic guitar riffs! Unfortunately words tend to get in the way of enjoying the music for me, which i think is how i ended up in electronic music land, because they distill the essence of what i like best about guitar music, and cut out all the stuff i don't much like.

I wonder if Aphex Twin has two parallel fan groups? Back in the 90s days, he was considered a highbrow musician, sort of "the thinking man's techno", up there with people like Brian Eno or something. But then somehow he broke out in the mainstream and there was the stretchy face video clip (going by memory here since the YouTube is blocked for whatever copyright reasons in Canada). I'm sure he must have found that all rather puzzling.

For visual artists like you worked with, did you follow the directors more than the musicians? Like (I just looked it up) Aphex Twin's was Chris Cunningham, and Daft Punk famously had Michael Gondry and Spike Jonze.