oldskool IDM like ISAN, Ilkae, Lusine, proem, Monoceros, Arovane

[patternoverlap]

I'm there right now : )

[cloud capture]

I listen to Arovane Tides often. Isan creates some beautiful idm/ambient soundscapes.

[Redruth]

lusine's 'language barrier' is really pretty

[Jur]

I listen to Ilkae a lot. For anyone interested he has a bandcamp.

 

http://ilkae.bandcamp.com/

 

EDIT: Beaten

[Chris Toffer]

Ilkae is a champ. He made all his releases free on his bandcamp

 

Might as well link it again http://ilkae.bandcamp.com/

 

Postachio island, stained glass piñata, light industry, bring extra dragons, negative VGA, can't play guitar & porpoise! are must haves..

 

And he's still releasing stuff so, definitely still relevant!

[Guest 20XX]

Glow in the dark safari set is an incredible album

[o00o]

cool <3

[Guest 20XX]

turn of the century cliche North America IDM type

[goDel]

I think I have too much time in my hands, but I developed a theory that the IDM history can roughly be divided in three phases. I'm not absolutely serious here, it's just my idle speculation.

 

1st phase (about 1988-1995) contains the early intelligent techno and ambient house/dub stuff, etc:

 

1988 Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid

1990 LFO - LFO

1990 Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco

1991 Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath

1991 FSOL - Accelerator

1991 The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

1992 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

1992 Aphex Twin - Digeridoo

1991 The Orb - UFOrb

1993 Aphex Twin - On

1993 Autechre - Incunabula

1994 Autechre - Amber

1994 FSOL - Lifeforms

1995 The Orb - Orbus Terrarum

 

2nd phase (about 1994-2005) is the glitch stuff, drill'n'bass, BOCcian hiphop, etc:

 

1994 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II

1995 Aphex Twin - ..I Care Because You Do

1995 Autechre - Tri Repetae

1995 Boards of Canada - Twoism

1996 Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album

1996 Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things

1997 Autechre - Chiastic Slide

1997 Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy

1998 Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

2001 Aphex Twin - Drukqs

2001 Autechre - Confield

2002 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

2005 Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

2005 Autechre - Untilted

 

3rd phase (2005-> ) is the post-acid analog stuff, 80s influences, Oversteps FM sounds, etc.

 

2005 Aphex Twin - Analord series

2007 The Tuss - Rushup Edge

2008 Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

2008 Autechre - Quaristice

2010 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

2010 Autechre - Oversteps

2010 VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

2011 Com Truise - Galactic Melt

 

Feel free to facepalm..

 

 

WTF. You're scratching a surface. Some surface....

 

I agree on the timing of the 1st phase though. But so much is missing here. Black Dog? B12? Evolution Records? How about some detroit? Carl Craig? The artificial intelligence series itself can be seen as the 1st phase, but you'd completely miss out on the ambient currents from that time. And detroit. To a certain extent R&S records as well. That first phase was at least as much label-driven as it was artist driven. Applied Rhythmic Technologies? New Electronica?

[Guest 20XX]

agree in reality there are intertwining and overlapping periods

can't be forgetting the late 90s-early 00s IDM of this thread topic

[joshuatxuk]

 

I think I have too much time in my hands, but I developed a theory that the IDM history can roughly be divided in three phases. I'm not absolutely serious here, it's just my idle speculation.

 

Feel free to facepalm..

 

 

WTF. You're scratching a surface. Some surface....

 

I agree on the timing of the 1st phase though. But so much is missing here. Black Dog? B12? Evolution Records? How about some detroit? Carl Craig? The artificial intelligence series itself can be seen as the 1st phase, but you'd completely miss out on the ambient currents from that time. And detroit. To a certain extent R&S records as well. That first phase was at least as much label-driven as it was artist driven. Applied Rhythmic Technologies? New Electronica?

 

 

It's a good effort, especially with the timing of "eras." There's a lot of nascent/pre-IDM to cover though, as you pointed out. One could also mention the rise of "intelligent" drum n' bass and other subgenres and the techno releases on Plus 8 and M_Nus, like Hawtin's F.U.S.E. and Plastikman monikers or Kenny Larkin's influential releases. Simon Reynolds' book from 1998/99 covers a lot of IDM or pre-IDM releases in detail. http://books.google.com/books/about/Generation_Ecstasy.html?id=tGaRJiXe74UC

 

Also, that "post-IDM" distinction is a good one. It's fairly often one sees IDM influence in current trends like future bass and the LA beat scene.