"
Intelligent Dance Music", an often debated term for a style of electronic music (as "intelligent" sounds pretentious and it's not really "dance music") that encompasses a
confusingly wide area of music. Mostly enjoyed by computer nerds and LSD-heads, mostly a combination of both. Known for being more cerebral than many forms of music, thus "intelligent". Listeners of this form of music are generally stereotyped as pretentious musical
afficionado pricks.
Popular artists include Aphex Twin (Richard D. James),
Squarepusher,
Autechre, Amon Tobin, and on the harder side,
Venetian Snares.
Popular labels include WARP Records, Planet Mu, Merck, and Rephlex.