squarepusher Are there closet IDM fans?

[Guest Fishtank]

I wonder if there's some regular Joe out there that works accounting at a local insurance firm, got a wife and kids, average size home, drives a BMW 3 series (not the M he couldn't afford the M). What if he likes IDM but he thinks it's too weird and he doesn't want anyone else to know so when he's on his way home from work he pops in some Squarepusher but when he's taking his buddies out for a few drinks he puts on the local pop station so his friends don't think he's strange.

[chassis]

Ive a certain group of friends I'd be like that with. I mean I play some funky acid and stuff like that but I wouldnt stick on Autechre in case I blew their minds.

 

I'd probably play D&B for them too.

[Guest margaret thatcher]

i don't discuss idm with my friends, if that's what you mean. i don't see the point.

[Guest Fishtank]

I mean would play it with your friends around or wait untill no one is listening

 

I do, none of my friends really like it though

[sidewinder]

I think to an extent we are all IDM fans. We know most people can't handle it...so we keep it to ourselves.

[Guest Lube Saibot]

I know a guy who is a closet IDM fan in the sense that he's in denial. For example, he would instantly respond to a track of the sort i put on, but then he'd ask what it was, and if it was anything on his carefully crafted "IDM shitlist" he'd go "oh" all disappointedly. It has to do with some weird self-esteem issues he's got, something like "if i can't make it, i won't listen to it" + some prejudice of his against DnB\jungle that he wildly extrapolates from. It's really funny to me as he's kind of dim and i play him dubstep with IDM pedigree (like loops haunt, burial, boxcutter etc) and he goes "What is this?", i go "Dubstep. *snicker*" and he loves it.

 

He's mostly just a cunt though, moreso than specifically a "closet IDM fan".

[QBLA]

i have a friend like this. he's a production manager at an architech firm, drives a lexus, married with 2 kids, his wife is into country, and i'm the "ONLY" one he talks to about idm music.

[Guest tht tne]

i have a friend like this. he's a production manager at an architech firm, drives a lexus, married with 2 kids, his wife is into country, and i'm the "ONLY" one he talks to about idm music.

 

that is because you are cool!

[J3FF3R00]

Exactly. None of my friends seem to like idm except me.

I remember having a birthday party and and dropping "Prelude in 303 Major" by Ceephax wihen all my friends were over.

They were all like "Um, can we change the song? This shit is giving me a headache." for real.

I think it made me feel like some sort of musical outcast/pervert because I thought it was mind-blowing and expected it to blow all of my friend's minds, too... but I was dead wrong.

 

On a related note, I was a closet Weezer fan in high school. In all seriousness.

I thought they were kinda shit until one jocky dude I had a summer job with asked me if I liked Weezer.

I told him I wasn't and he was like "Dude, you have to listen to the blue album". This was before Pinkerton, btw.

He played it for me at work and I asked him on the DL to make me a copy. I got way into it.

All of my friends were goths, ravers and metalheads and thought Weezer (as well as every other mainstream band) was garbage and they used to talk shit about them, so I knew I couldn't tell them.

I actually had a "coming out" too. I think it was senior year. I told my girlfriend "There's something I feel like I need to tell you." She looked all scared like I was gonna say I was cheating on her.

I said "I really like Weezer... a lot." And she basically had the same reaction I would have expected if I had been cheating on her.

[SCONES TO DIE FOR]

I know closet IDM fans - I think. Most don't admit it, but hint at it. There needs to be a secret handshake.

[chim]

Yeah I dont talk much IDM. Some people I meet are into the aphex twinz, "OMG avril 14th/come to daddy/windowlicker is like so awesome". I was at a party once where the host turned out to be a huge aphex fan, we played drukqs from start to finish and felt superior to the rest of the crowd.

 

IDM's not the only thing I like, especially not these days when it's kind of a ghost town genre.

[SCONES TO DIE FOR]

The ones I know don't listen to much IDM from after 1996.

 

I did see some brief interest among them in the Analord series though.

 

They say things like "remember IDM?" like you'd say about big beat or electroclash.

 

I'm more or less the same way I guess, except watmm keeps me a little more aware that people still listen to it.

[pcock]

I was at a party once where the host turned out to be a huge aphex fan, we played drukqs from start to finish and felt superior to the rest of the crowd.

 

 

 

and this essentially sums up why idm is so crap

[Guest assegai]

What's Closet Idm?

[chim]

I was at a party once where the host turned out to be a huge aphex fan, we played drukqs from start to finish and felt superior to the rest of the crowd.

 

 

 

and this essentially sums up why idm is so crap

 

What the fuck, did I oppress your people or something?

[sidewinder]

I met a girl recently that likes the IDMs though! I don't know if she actually likes Aphex, Squarepusher, the usual suspects, and I doubt she'd like Autechre (for now), but she loves Prefuse 73 and Amon Tobin, and she confirmed liking Mouse on Mars too. I made her a mix of other stuff and she said she loved it!

 

We are not alone.

[pcock]

I was at a party once where the host turned out to be a huge aphex fan, we played drukqs from start to finish and felt superior to the rest of the crowd.

 

 

 

and this essentially sums up why idm is so crap

 

What the fuck, did I oppress your people or something?

 

no, its just the general idm mindset of having some clever little bleeps and bloops in some interesting rhythms somehow makes the music superior to the lower weaklings of earth who dont like that shit.

[SR4]

i have one friend that likes the slower ambient side of things, like SAW 85-92, but he cannot stand anything even remotely crazy...so Blue Calx yes, Vordhosbn absolutely not.

 

 

most people I meet I don't even bother, its too much effort and I frankly couldnt give a shit if they liked it or not...im playing it.

[Guest ms-dos]

I know closet IDM fans - I think. Most don't admit it, but hint at it. There needs to be a secret handshake.

 

IDM fans wear an earring in their right ears to identify one another

[SCONES TO DIE FOR]

I know closet IDM fans - I think. Most don't admit it, but hint at it. There needs to be a secret handshake.

 

IDM fans wear an earring in their right ears to identify one another

I thought it was a black bandana in the rear left pocket of their pants.

[SR4]

i was going to go with some sort of patch on their chest pocket, some sort of symbol which can be easily recognized by both the public and the interested parties.

[chassis]

i have one friend that likes the slower ambient side of things, like SAW 85-92, but he cannot stand anything even remotely crazy...so Blue Calx yes, Vordhosbn absolutely not.

 

 

most people I meet I don't even bother, its too much effort and I frankly couldnt give a shit if they liked it or not...im playing it.

Oh ye, a few of my mates have that. But theyre not aware of the other less mainstream stuff.

[Guest ms-dos]

I know closet IDM fans - I think. Most don't admit it, but hint at it. There needs to be a secret handshake.

 

IDM fans wear an earring in their right ears to identify one another

I thought it was a black bandana in the rear left pocket of their pants.

 

those are breakcore fans

[Guest viscosity]

ima fan

 

idm can be an acquired taste lol, some stuff works well in rave type environments but allot of other less mainstream stuff i've played for people they would not take to or would pass it off as nonlyrical and thus strange

[sneaksta303]

for the sake of the thread what is being defined as IDM exactly?