Meaning of intelligent dance music | Babel Free

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A genre of experimental electronic music that combines elements of techno and dance music with complex rhythmic structures and atypical melodic patterns.

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“It was a record that helped to launch the careers of Autechre, Aphex Twin and Richie Hawtin, birthed the genre that would later become known as intelligent dance music (or IDM), and changed the idea of electronic music as merely a tool for dancing.”

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