@c_reider back in 94 we were at the wax trax office doing interviews, and we had a parade of writers asking us how much we liked front 242, skinny puppy or kmfdm.
we were like fuck no we never listened to any of that, we like electro and techno; and they'd just glaze over, no interest. a couple of them were acting like it wasn't even proper music.
so yeah that's prob why some other americans thought they'd have to separate all this uk stuff out into its own scene and say something like 'hey this isn't like that other dumb dance music! look! it's intelligent!'.
i guess something to do with race maybe (?) but i never really understood how things work over there.
whatever the reason, the term IDM was exclusively used by americans until the mid 2000s. in the uk people called it 'electronica' (also stupid for diff reasons).
and in all seriousness - saying it's not dance music is just a skill issue.
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