Classic IDM albums?
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- KVRist
- 77 posts since 31 Mar, 2003 from Gävle, Sweden
To me, the most classic Squarepusher album is definitely Big Loada, even though it might be classed as an ep. Another that's absolutely classic is Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy, the mini-album that contains both the original ep and the remix ep.
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 7 May, 2002 from Sydney, Australia
Delarosa and Asora's "Agony" defines it for me.
Beautiful intricacy in the arrangements of rhythms and glitches, with jazz influences in the chord structures and an underlying funk.
It's all taste I guess - I tend to find Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher etc a bit euro-folky-rocky in their harmonic/melodic structures, despite the intricacy of their sonic experimentations..
Beautiful intricacy in the arrangements of rhythms and glitches, with jazz influences in the chord structures and an underlying funk.
It's all taste I guess - I tend to find Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher etc a bit euro-folky-rocky in their harmonic/melodic structures, despite the intricacy of their sonic experimentations..
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- addled muppet weed
- 111299 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
first time ive evr heard any of those guys described as folky rock thanks for the giggles 
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 358 posts since 2 Dec, 2002
Don't get hung up on the IDM term, it's just a word, but it makes it possible to talk about music even if you havn't heard it... I suppose everything released by Warp Records could be classified as IDM in my book. And most albums mentioned are from Warp...
PAntsdown666: good comment on Aphex et al. using Euro centric harmonies, I havn't heard anyone using other harmonies, like jazz, like non-euro etno. Seems like most artists focus on sound, ambience and rythms. I'll check out "Agony"
Keep them comming....
PAntsdown666: good comment on Aphex et al. using Euro centric harmonies, I havn't heard anyone using other harmonies, like jazz, like non-euro etno. Seems like most artists focus on sound, ambience and rythms. I'll check out "Agony"
Keep them comming....
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- KVRian
- 619 posts since 15 Feb, 2004 from Birmingham, UK
A few not mentioned yet:
Everything by Vladislav Delay and Luomo
Monolake - Interstate (and Gobi the desert and Hong Kong and...)
µ-ziq - Lunatic Harness (why hasn't Paradinas been mentioned?)
Plaid - Trainer
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Venetian Snares - too many to mention
shuttle358 - Optimal.lp
The Books - Though for Food
Black Dog - Spanners
Amon Tobin - Bricolage, Permutations & Supermodified
Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding -jazz-records
Prefuse73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives
Speedy J - Public Energy No. 1 & A Shocking Hobby
Higher Intelligence Agency - Freefloater
Jega - Geometry
Dabrye - One/Three
Global Communication - 76:14
B12 - Electro-Soma
Plastikman - Musik
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Everything by Vladislav Delay and Luomo
Monolake - Interstate (and Gobi the desert and Hong Kong and...)
µ-ziq - Lunatic Harness (why hasn't Paradinas been mentioned?)
Plaid - Trainer
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Venetian Snares - too many to mention
shuttle358 - Optimal.lp
The Books - Though for Food
Black Dog - Spanners
Amon Tobin - Bricolage, Permutations & Supermodified
Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding -jazz-records
Prefuse73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives
Speedy J - Public Energy No. 1 & A Shocking Hobby
Higher Intelligence Agency - Freefloater
Jega - Geometry
Dabrye - One/Three
Global Communication - 76:14
B12 - Electro-Soma
Plastikman - Musik
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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- KVRist
- 481 posts since 12 Nov, 2002 from Texas
-evax
-m83
-yokota
-dred & green
are some good ones not mentioned
most are ripoff aritsts though
-m83
-yokota
-dred & green
are some good ones not mentioned
most are ripoff aritsts though
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- KVRist
- 149 posts since 13 Aug, 2001 from Chicago
Yeah, this record, "Richard D. James," and "Music Has the Right to Children" were three of the records that made me wake up and realize there was a lot more going on in the late-90s electronic music underground besides four-on-the-floor techno, trip-hop and jungle.lanark wrote:Mouse on Mars: Niun Niggung (1999)
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- angelboy
- 4586 posts since 21 Aug, 2001 from Larnaca, Cyprus
So, Music Has The Right to Children is THAT essential?? Hmmm, maybe I'll go get it after all.
Another vote for Fennesz's 'Endless Summer'. Great album.
Another vote for Fennesz's 'Endless Summer'. Great album.
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- KVRist
- 99 posts since 28 Aug, 2002 from Cleveland, Ohio USA
It's going to sound cliche and trite these days because everyone and their brother has tried to mimic the sounds and style, but heard with fresh ears back when it came out, it moved the earth.TristezaOrange wrote:So, Music Has The Right to Children is THAT essential?? Hmmm, maybe I'll go get it after all.
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- KVRist
- 149 posts since 13 Aug, 2001 from Chicago
It seems that it either clicks with you or it doesn't. I know plenty of people who think it's incredibly boring. But tracks like "Happy Cycling," "ROYGBIV, and "Aquarius" have a certain hard-to-put-my-finger-on-it something about them that definitely clicks with me.TristezaOrange wrote:So, Music Has The Right to Children is THAT essential?? Hmmm, maybe I'll go get it after all.
It's basically mood music, and it is a mood that I like to be in. Not revolutionary like "Tri Repetae," or "Richard D. James," but certainly noteworthy, if only because it clicked with so many people so completely.
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- KVRist
- 453 posts since 10 Jul, 2003 from Rotterdam
Squarepusher uses jazz harmonies in lots of his tracks.. plenty of examples on Hard Normal Daddy.ZooTooK wrote:I havn't heard anyone using other harmonies, like jazz, like non-euro etno.
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- KVRAF
- 2875 posts since 28 Jan, 2004 from Da Nang, Vietnam
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- KVRist
- 148 posts since 6 Nov, 2003
Bola - Soup is a surefire IDM classic. It has a trippy almost 70s Jarre/Vangelis/Floyd vibe that I love. Great compositions, great sounds, and it manages to steer clear of most of the genre's cliches.
Glad to see The Books getting a mention. Their stuff is brilliant - I'd have to call it post-IDM though.
Also post-IDM, also brilliant, Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange. Never before has one man mangled so many genres together and made it sound so effortlessly catchy and appealing. If you're getting bored with what you're listening to this is something to look into.
Glad to see The Books getting a mention. Their stuff is brilliant - I'd have to call it post-IDM though.
Also post-IDM, also brilliant, Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange. Never before has one man mangled so many genres together and made it sound so effortlessly catchy and appealing. If you're getting bored with what you're listening to this is something to look into.
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- KVRist
- 149 posts since 13 Aug, 2001 from Chicago
Me, too. They are my favorite band in the world right now. I was fortunate enough to see their only show to date (at the Art Institute here in Chicago last October). Fantastic performance, amazing band.fleetmouse wrote:Glad to see The Books getting a mention.
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- KVRian
- 864 posts since 4 Apr, 2001 from Finland
Heh, "post-IDM".
Well, you can toss in Múm, Lali Puna, Ms. John Soda and Notwist.
Somebody has called this stuff Indietronics
(I saw the latter three in Berlin last autumn!)
Anyway, there are lots of very different bands here. I for one have never warmed that much to Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Autechre, but I think that Mouse on Mars are gods.
Well, you can toss in Múm, Lali Puna, Ms. John Soda and Notwist.
Somebody has called this stuff Indietronics
(I saw the latter three in Berlin last autumn!)
Anyway, there are lots of very different bands here. I for one have never warmed that much to Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Autechre, but I think that Mouse on Mars are gods.