Intelligent dance

Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a genre of electronic music derived from dance music of the 1980s and early 1990s which put an emphasis on novel

Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a genre of electronic music derived from dance music of the 1980s and early 1990s which put an emphasis on novel processing and sequencing. IDM's roots in electronic dance are responsible for the term "Dance" in the genre name, which was originally applied to musicians like Aphex Twin and those on the Warp Records label.

In 1992, Warp Records released Artificial Intelligence, a collection of tracks from artists such as Autechre, B12, The Black Dog, Aphex Twin, and The Orb, under various aliases, as well as Richard H. Kirk and Speedy J, and the first first album in the Artificial Intelligence series. These artists, among others, would eventually become the main topics of conversation in the IDM List, an electronic mailing list founded in August 1993.