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idm = intellectual dance music or intelligent dance music, the former being preferred as less arrogant-sounding and more accurate to people that make it. The term was invented by music journalists to describe EDM artists that seem more intent on exploring ideas, mixing genres and increasing self-expression and individuality rather than focusing on making people dance. Tendencies like the above are seen as "mind-music" rather than "heart-music". I think the term IDM is very accurate as the biggest criticism people have of my music (and other IDM) is its lack of emotion and lack of feel, but with the trade off of greatest novelty and experimentation.
I suspect you are talking about a specific phenomena in the term IDM, which is, the first few artists to get such terms like aphex twin, autechre, etc. got the label "IDM" (according to wikipedia and my memory of the time) for the reasons i stated. it became that thing to younger kids of assuming IDM = aphex twin music, as though he were the only IDM artist. i wouldn't worry about people so mis-guided, as they are probably young, don't remember the origin of the genre, and probably not very intellectual or IDM-type people (read: nerdy).
the sound of an IDM artist depends a lot on exactly what branch of music their experiments are in. aphex goes for new sounds and beats. i have little interest in this, as it really just seems like experimental techno to me. I prefer to study novel compositional ideas and scales (schenker, schoenberg, twelve tone rows, polytonality, lydian dominant harmonies and modes, etc) i mostly use fl presets for my sounds. that's all. all my experimentation is confined to the departments of composition and genre-combining. my sounds are fruity loop presets and a 909 -- nothing new at all. very old-school sounds. the weirdness is all coming from harmonies, melodies, and arrangements rarely seen outside of bebop jazz and baroque classical music.
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Anyway, I like the name of your track. 
