Looking for a music video

[Obiwanshinobi]

Saw it on some music TV station a decade ago or so. The music was some generic drum & bass or trance, I think. Nothing that would've caught my attention whilst played on the radio. The video was almost certainly shot in Japan. A family had a celebration, somebody's birthday with a cake and candles and stuff. Not in a standalone house, rather in a block of flats. A woman (daughter?) in the bathroom beholds her teeth reflected in a mirror. Seems to have a problem with the looks of her teeth. There's clearly something wrong with her behaviour. The dad strikes a match (!) to light his cigarette and something (the match? the cake?) explodes. The rest of the video is a mighty explosion shot in slo-mo with all details, how the family gets blown up. The end is a dude watching the explosion from a playground near the block of flats, getting caught by the Japanese cops who perform one of their trademark subduing moves on the guy.
Just today this video reminded me of that one, but it's more of a coincidence than anything else. I still would like to watch that vid again.

[GaijinPunch]

I know that if you're not into electronic music then you probably don't know, but you've basically just described two extremes of the genre. One is really gay and the other really noisy.

[Obiwanshinobi]

I know that if you're not into electronic music then you probably don't know, but you've basically just described two extremes of the genre. One is really gay and the other really noisy.

Aye, aye, it's just that the air around me was oversaturated with both back in the day and it's not the music that caught my attention in this case.
Sometimes you are sure that the game you're searching for was a, say, vertically scrolling shooter, but it turns out to be a horizontally scrolling beat 'em up (it just happens to have THAT boss sprite stuck in your memory).
If that helps, around that time said TV channel used to air Smack My Bitch Up, some Tricky music video and a Massive Attack one, with mild references to intravenous heroin intake.

[Raytrace]

dunno wot it is, but the video sounds like something an 'IDM' (an utterly pretentious term) act would use - someone like Squarepusher or Aphex Twin, also that could fit in with the 'Drum n Bass' bit...

[Sumez]

"Trance" is a pretty nondescript term - it can be both totally gay and anthemish, and it can be pretty heavy and noisy as well.
And "Drum 'n' Bass" has been abused so much it pretty much lost its meaning (I mean, come on, Pendulum?? Seriously?), so I don't see anything odd about combining those two terms.
And if DnB is a noisy extreme of the electronic music scene, I take it you've never heard breakcore, speedcore, rhythmic noise, or power electronics for that matter.

Actually, trance combined with DnB does sound kinda awesome, I just want to hear this music now.

[Raytrace]

"Trance" is a pretty nondescript term - it can be both totally gay and anthemish, and it can be pretty heavy and noisy as well.
And "Drum 'n' Bass" has been abused so much it pretty much lost its meaning (I mean, come on, Pendulum?? Seriously?), so I don't see anything odd about combining those two terms.
And if DnB is a noisy extreme of the electronic music scene, I take it you've never heard breakcore, speedcore, rhythmic noise, or power electronics for that matter.

Actually, trance combined with DnB does sound kinda awesome, I just want to hear this music now.

yep Trance has been a completely dissolved term - while I LOVE (really) early trance (I.e. stuff on Secret Life Of Trance I - IV or early Harthouse compilations), I have no liking for the modern supersaw filled variety at all.

DnB is another genre which has completely changed, it's origin (jungle/breakbeat hardcore) were tyring to make beats more complex etc., and hearing the crunchiness of the breakbeat samples in between the kick and snare added to this, now a lot of it is literally kick snare kick snare (just like Pendulum), and the 'break' beats are nowhere to be heard :/.

yeh breakcore etc. are definitely heavier than a lot of DnB, but I could understand thinking that some Breakcore/IDM type stuff was DnB if you weren't particularly 'into' the scenes, as chopped up Amen's do sound to most people very like DnB/Jungle.

[GaijinPunch]

dunno wot it is, but the video sounds like something an 'IDM' (an utterly pretentious term) act would use - someone like Squarepusher or Aphex Twin, also that could fit in with the 'Drum n Bass' bit...

Wow, you think Aphex Twin is IDM?

And if DnB is a noisy extreme of the electronic music scene, I take it you've never heard breakcore, speedcore, rhythmic noise, or power electronics for that matter

Yeah but they're hardly household names. Sure there are noisier sub-genres, but how often are you going to bump into them by accident?

[rancor]

Wow, you think Aphex Twin is IDM?

I dont see how it's not IDM...

Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM or intelligent dance) is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s.

Aphex Twin - check

Stylistically, IDM tends to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than on a particular set of musical characteristics.

Aphex Twin - check

especially those appearing on a 1992 Warp Records compilation called Artificial Intelligence.

Aphex Twin - check

Usage of the term "Intelligent Dance Music" has been criticised by electronic musicians such as Aphex Twin

Oh...

[GaijinPunch]

First, I'd say that Aphex Twin is not really categorizable (like that word?). He does a wide variety of stuff. While most of his stuff is super creative, IDM is more identifiable. I'd say he's more electronic experimentation first and foremost, and falls into tons of sub-genres. That was kind of what I was getting at. (The 2nd Selected Ambient Works is dope). Lemme just ask this: have you ever tried to dance to more than a few of his tracks? I've just never seen his music as dance music... at all. But, I grew up in clubs, not concerts... always went to hear DJs, not performers.

[Sumez]

Come on, there are so many different definitions of IDM, it's difficult to tell what is. Aphex was around long before the IDM term was coined, but I think it fits well with his sound.

Autechre are often considered IDM as well (maybe even the innovators of the genre?), but they too were around before anyone decided to call them that. Their biggest sources of inspiration are Coil and Skinny Puppy.

[Raytrace]

dunno wot it is, but the video sounds like something an 'IDM' (an utterly pretentious term) act would use - someone like Squarepusher or Aphex Twin, also that could fit in with the 'Drum n Bass' bit...

Wow, you think Aphex Twin is IDM?

pretty much yeah - or at least MASSIVELY influential on it

[Blackbird]

have you ever tried to dance to more than a few of his tracks? I've just never seen his music as dance music... at all.

I thought the point of IDM was that you -don't- dance to it? I always thought it was an ironic term. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

[Raytrace]

early Aphex Twin is kinda danceable I suppose - Didgeridoo used to always get played at raves (I have the R&S 12" ) - and if we consider Pac Man him - thats deffo danceable :p

Window Licker is I suppose danceable in a 5:30 AM sunday morning kinda way

[Sumez]

Most IDM I hear isn't dance music, obviously. Maybe swaying a bit, but dancing? Nah. I'd like to hear what GaijinPunch considers IDM, now.

[Leandro]

If you ever find this video please post here, I liked the premise.

[szycag]

I wish the term "IDM" would just go away. Nobody that gets called that likes being called that. It was adapted from the name of some mailing list about electronic music. It was never meant to catch on or describe an entire genre.

"anyone who applies the term IDM to my music deserves to be shot" - Cylob

[Raytrace]

I wish the term "IDM" would just go away. Nobody that gets called that likes being called that. It was adapted from the name of some mailing list about electronic music. It was never meant to catch on or describe an entire genre.

"anyone who applies the term IDM to my music deserves to be shot" - Cylob

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