IDM & Electronica

“Intelligent dance music” – IDM is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s that is regarded as “cerebral” and better suited to home listening than dancing.

The original wide-spread use of the term “Electronica” derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play.At that time electronica became known as “electronic listening music”.Electronica artists that would later become commercially successful began to record in the late 1980s, before the term had come into common usage, including for example The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Moby, Underworld and Faithless.