'Intelligent dance music', detestable term, refers to the whole mid-90's breakbeat/experimental thing...
EDM is a new one on me, I like it though!
Back to your point, I wasn't trying to say that the future is in 'EDM' specifically, but with the ever-increasing possibilities of digital production there has always been fertile ground for genuinely new and innovative sounds/styles (the aforementioned dubstep scene and Panda Bear's album)...
I know sweet F.A. about digital studio production, I've seen some cheap programs at work but it seems like you need an MSc just to work the bloody things, but it's a much more democratic means of making music. Middle-class kids like the Beatles and the Stones could afford electric guitars (which weren't cheap at the turn of the 50's) but now any two bit child prodigy can get started with Fruityloops on his family computer and move up from there
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