Intelligent Dance Music—commonly abbreviated as IDM—has become both a shorthand and an umbrella for a lineage of electronic production that prizes intellectual curiosity over commercial immediacy.

As far as gigs for a Dallas electronic musician go, it simply does not get bigger than this. On Tuesday, influential “Intelligent Dance Music” duo Autechre announced their first North American tour in ...

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Plaid have been reliable fixtures in “intelligent dance music” since the genre first rose to prominence in the 1990s. Their latest, Reachy Prints, is full of new sounds, but their experimentation is ...

Born of primitive file sharing clients, a small group of labels in Europe and the unfortunate name of an early list serve, IDM or intelligent dance music was the sound of the future in the early 90s.