From idm-owner Sun Aug 1 20:14:09 1993 From: bsanders@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Barry Sanders) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 22:07:08 -0500 Subject: Can Dumb People Enjoy IDM, Too? Status: O
(bSANDERS threads the squiggling earthworm onto the brass hook at the end of his nylon line)
Is the porpoise of intelligent dance music to give self-presumed intellectuals something to discuss? Or is the purpose to elevate the appreciation levels of the "proles on parade" (Buggles, 1980) Is intelligent dance music like animal crackers: Education that fulfills a basic food/sex/warmth drive simultaneously? Or is it like staring at a Paul Klee canvas, and trying to figure out what to marvel at. I think it's like the Paul Klee canvas, myself. Especially F.U.S.E. (which I love, though I'm not sure exactly why at times.) [Note: Paul Klee, to my knowledge, became famous for his extremely minimalistic abstract paintings that drew attention to the process of painting. Many of his canvasses are simply large areas of color, completely DEV