{"id":4933,"date":"2004-03-28T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2004-03-28T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2004-03-28T16:03:29","slug":"ishkurs-guide-to-electronic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/03\/28\/ishkurs-guide-to-electronic-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishkur&#8217;s Guide To Electronic Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.di.fm\/edmguide\/edmguide.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guide To Electronic Music\">How handy! How confusing!<\/a> Guaranteed to leave you with no idea what type of music it is that you are listening to, but written in such a way that you&#8217;ll have a good laugh finding out.<br \/>\nOn IDM (a.k.a. Intelligent Dance Music):<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">This is the oddest named genre in the entire world, since it&#8217;s not easily danceable, it&#8217;s not certifiably intelligent, and it&#8217;s arguable as to whether it constitutes actual music. This is the realm of the uber-pretentious electronic music afficionados, with razor-thin eclectic tastes, who spend most of their waking energy arguing about what IDM is and what IDM isn&#8217;t. But I guess that depends on what your definition of &quot;is&quot; is. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s the one genre that doesn&#8217;t have any kind of cohesive sound. That&#8217;s also why some of them despise the term &quot;Intelligent Dance Music&quot;. So just ignore them. It is fun to listen to, after all.<\/div>\n<p>Excuse me whilst I go and turn up my Amon Tobin album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How handy! How confusing! Guaranteed to leave you with no idea what type of music it is that you are listening to, but written in such a way that you&#8217;ll have a good laugh finding out. On IDM (a.k.a. Intelligent Dance Music): This is the oddest named genre in the entire world, since it&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}