The 10 Best IDM Albums
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Born of primitive file sharing clients, a small group of labels in Europe and the unfortunate name of an early list serve, IDM or intelligent dance music was the sound of the future in the early ‘90s. Here are the 10 best IDM albums.
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The 10 Best IDM Albums
Aphex Twin's Ambient Works is still what the future sounds like to me
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@@yukiehms462 not even mad at the self promotion i really dig your style
Yuppppppp
It missed Plaid, U-ziq, Telefon Tel Aviv, Wisp, Mrs. Jynx, Kettel... But there are just so many it's difficult to pick every single one and pack them all in a single top 10 list.
beautiful picks! Lots of good IDM out there that gets so ignored by critics putting very few of the greats on a pedestal sadly.
Don't forget The Future Sound of London's Lifeforms and Dead Cities
Loved dead cities.
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@@yukiehms462 why are u promoting your own music in the comment section?
Needs Amon Tobin
Elias Jackson yea great musician, made the best video game soundtrack for Splinter cell chaos theory
Amon does mostly breaks and sample work, less ambient. IDM started as a reaction to the confusion whereby AMBIENT of the early 90's became confused with the new styles of the late 90's, Autechre was Ambient at first, vangelis, aphex, it was all ambient. Glitch became a different kind of new thing, which was more prioritized as the foreground of the music, where glitch before had been a type of sample work within ambient, it became more of a type of percussion style. that was my take of it anyways. while urban ambient techno had a big boost in the early 90's it was only labeled IDM at least 5 years after the artificial intelligence CD, and wiki sais early 90's but that's inaccurate, the term didnt exist in early 90s.. This cd is artificial LifeForms and was much more famous than any WARP records releases: www.discogs.com/The-Future-Sound-Of-London-Lifeforms/master/6526 Warp records has in fact consistently not attracted artists like BOC, FSOL, and I see WARP as riding the IDM style as a commercial label.
I'm kind of a fanboy and I think all of his albums are easily 9's and 10's, but if I had to pick one for this list it would probably be Supermodified :)
+1 for Supermodified as well
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Boards Of Canada unsettles me like no other music. So damn haunting...
Funny, it feels like nursery rhymes to me.
Me, I just can't get into them. I don't think they're bad, they just don't strike the right chord for me.
This is a JOKE!!! Where's David Guetta??
Whaat? Dead? Thanks for ruining my day!!! :(
R. Pneumo IDM not EDM
Who is David Guetta?
A soccer player?
We are talking about Intelligent Dance Music ;-)
+Eddy Lohse So you're saying Guetta's bangerz is NOT INTELLIGENT MUSIC???!
R. Pneumo hahahahaha, ohhhhhhhh god. please stop.
and radiohead was never the same since
"FASTER JONNY"
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*L O L*
The greatest left turn in music history
sweet more people should get into IDM
I tried with this album I put together: imgur.com/gallery/eXN1X but it only got 9 up votes... people really suck... :c
@@ga1actic_muffin ~ you changed 9 people's lives.
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my all time favorite is Incunabula from Autechre, and I still think is one of the most complete and pure IDM albums ever made.
Should of been in the list instead of LP5
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms - 1994
Proem - Socially Inept - 2004
Loess - Burrows - 2009
The Flashbulb - Hardscrabble - 2012
Thank you very much!
Love The Flashbulb lmao
Fsol isnt idm lol
@@fabril2673its just acid music
Selected Ambient Works is an absolute masterpiece but I think Drukqs should have also been on there
Where's PLAID?
Hello?
yeah man wtf
and bluetech, felix laband, colleen
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Plaid, Telefon Tel Aviv, Proem, Clark, and Oval are missing here :(((
Glad to see Jan Jelinek here, I wasn't expecting him at all
Top10 overall IDM? More like The 10 Best WARP IDM Albums ))
Having 3 artists appear twice in a top 10 list shows a huge shortfall in misunderstanding of this music. You don't need a top 10, just 10 of the best will surfice
BINGO! No Bola, Mu-ziq, Cylob, Bogdan Raczynski, Kid 606, Jega, etc
yeah it's not a "top 10". The title says "The 10 Best IDM Albums"
Funkstrong (idk how spell it) is really good. People usually like to clump IDM into the big 4 or 3 guys who pioneered it. But there is so much more.
In the UK we just call everything 'dance'.
Yeah, and what about "dance"? How do you call it? "Potatoes"?
You can dance if you want to
Potatoes is the best IDM lol
Apple Music just calls everything ‘alternative’
@@saturatedneowax true af
No Apparat? Telefon Tel-Aviv?
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No Telefon Tel Aviv? Fahrenheit Fair Enough is one of the most important and utterly original things to arise in the IDM scene
No µ-Ziq?
sad....
Wisp (reid dunn) is the most amazing and underrated idm artist of all time
shhhh its a secret
jk it would be nice if he made more
That sure is a nice selection of great albums to go and listen to (again)
Man, this is some lazy shit. If the list compilers honestly felt that only three artists created more than half of the genre's best albums, then why did they think the genre warranted its own list in the first place.
That's just the say it was then. You had supergeek badasses and wannabes.
Do you have any top idm records to recommend that are at the same caliber as these?
Autechre , Aphex Twin and BoC have consistently made the most top notch IDM on the planet. You need look no further than the aforementioned Holy trinity of glitch and ambient.
Alex G. Nah there’s a lot of other great stuff out there; oval’s first two albums (ambient/glitch), Luke vibert (aphex collaborator), future sound of London (ambient), square pusher (acidy/complex rhythms). No doubt the trinity are great but there’s more to idm
xavier lopez I really love 96diskont. By oval although it’s more on the ambient/glitch side of things so idk if it’s up your street. I recommend the UA-cam channel “ninauploads” if you want to find new idm to listen to, also has a tonne of amazing aphex twin deepcuts on it
Wow, they got it right for once.
Shame there's no Prefuse 73 but okay
Deserves to be higher imo
kinda more like glitchhop to me. but love his stuff
@Username Because we love to annoy idiots like yourself.
No flying lotus kinda surprised me
No 2pac?
Yeah no AC/DC either i mean wtf pitchfork
This list have no value without DARUDE!
What the fuck are you saying dude, Flying Lotus is more like hip hop than fully electronica
@@anongus88I'd say he exists in a gray area
I would take LP5 out and sticki Confield at #1, maybe a mu-ziq album too.
I wish Prefuse 73 and Radiohead were in here too.
No FlyLo?
of course not, Flying Lotus is too commercially popular for Pitchfork
lel FlyLo has gained a BNM for each album since forever, they just consider him more of a nu jazz guy
He is really great but not really "IDM." That is kinda like saying "I like Animal Collective why is that band not in the top ten metal acts of all time?"
That being said this list is kinda contrived and grasping. There are a ton of artists in this subgenre and they basically did a Warp exclusive through the entire thing. Its almost like one of their interns must be having a "moody" week and decided to surf the "edgy" section of their Spotify discover lists.
he's on the full list, #22 or something
3:25 look how they edited him to smile after 5 seconds lol
Only person to notice lol
It can't be helped since it's Top 10, but the artists are too biased.
There are many underrated IDM artists out there.
all of my classical childhood sounds, makes me.. huuuh
Ocoeur - A Parallel Life
drukqs?!
5.5
ahhahahahhahahaahhha
Matthew White The actual worst review ever written
exactly
I fucking hate Pitchfork
Waiting for Plaid's Double Figure, but it never came ...
WHERE'S "HOSPITALITY" FROM "VENETIAN SNARES"?
i think the i in that kind of idm stands for "insane"
Andy clark change my world
I just came to know about IDM maybe 3-4 minutes ago
Maybe flume is IDM too
Flume is similar, his album, "hi this is flume" is pretty sick, I like it.
Squarepusher - Go Plastic. Mr Bill - Aphophenia. Richard Devine - Lipswitch, RISP, Sort/Lava. Qebrus - All Albums. Woulg - All Albums. Vaetxh - Mass, Libet Tones. Check em guys! SOLIDDDD
Bolten M!
Amon Tobin, Plaid, Com Truise,Mu-siq......there is more to idm that warp releases.
Plaid is on Warp Records tho
Check out the "Fingers EP" by Löbato, a new IDM artist. It's fire!
You can find it on all streaming platforms.
I guessed No.1
For me my favorite IDM album of all time is Ochre's Midsummer Nice Dream
Cheers. I've check it out.
one of my all time favs
Thank you very much for such a great recommendation. Love it!!!!!!
An incredible album indeed
thanks for sharing with us
I found Music Has The Right to Children on a USB stick just laying on the ground. Opened up a door into all kinds of new music.
I'd like to think 'Burial Untrue' made the top 50.
Claverleykid1 but burial is what dubstep geezers say dubstep is supposed to sound like. You got your chocolate in my peanut butter.
Untrue is garage?
Lol more like the 10 most mainstream electronica albums
Internet download manager
WRONG, :) IDM did not appear on any CDs prior to about 1997 afaik, intelligent drum and bass arrived first around 1995, which made intelligent a common label in the electronic music genre, and IDM arrived after IDB. please find IDM on a CD prior to 1995/1996, i balieve that's false information from wiki. the term idm arrived in 1996/7.
needs telefon tel aviv
where's U-zig? and Square Pushers 'Long Hard Daddy'. Also, surley BoC falls under 'Ambient'. :) Also the 'IDB' is kind of a retconned name. Like how 'Power Groove' 1993+ became 'Nu Metal' 1998+.
what about david guetta - one love? boundary pushing intelligent dance music
needs moar FLASHBULB
where is the MoM
MIKE DEAN'S 4:20 should be on an updated version of this list! If you're into synth instrumental music you'll love 4:20 by MIKE DEAN
Love? Death? Immortality?
I'm kind of disappointed I didn't see the reason I found this genre on here, although I got a bunch of good artists now :)
ulrich schnauss orbital
Bt - This Binary Universe?
Clark s Body Riddle should be here and not two LP s of any one artist. Cmon!
F*** me! i own pretty much all of these records and indeed bought #1 when it came out and i have NEVER heard of the term idm before...
That's a good thing; it's kind of a pretentious term.
The artists that are classed as IDM tend not to like the term.
"- Pitchfork"
Actually surprised I like this list lmao
velocity: design: comfort should be somewhere on this list imo
nope
Where is lorn?????
No V Snare
which track from the warp compilation at number 10 is being played? can't seem to find it 0.38 seconds in
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Cylob- Cylobian Sunset
No Saturday Index?
No Reload A Collection of Short Stories?
There is so much wrong with this. And no there wasn't file sharing available anywhere when the beginnings of this scene were happening. And no there wasn't any bit crushing when Tri Repetae came out. And no you don't pronounce Cheshire that way. Thanks :-)
would've flipped shit if they didn't put an aphex album as #1
should've been more aphex ngl we don't like to admit it but he completely dominates everyone
I hate to admit it, too. But there's something special about that mf
Aphex twin😍 ambient works the best!
Does nobody like aphex twin's classics album. I know its not really IDM but nobody seems to appreciate it online.
Yeah we love it. Except the Tampax song. You like Caustic Window?
Amorphous androgynous - tales of ephidrena
Jackson and his computerband???
Like 1/3 of these aren't idm
Uhhhh
Anomalous warp records doesn't automatically mean idm. Boards of Canada isn't IDM. Four Tet Rounds is also very debatable, it has elements of idm/glitch but I personally wouldn't call that IDM
WRONG?! Find a SINGLE CD with the word IDM in the text prior to 1997?!?!? Sorry, i was 12 at the start of the 90's, IDM did not exist prior to at least 1997!!! and in 94 the most passionate ambient dance music collector's CD's would have mostly comprised Vangelis, Mellow techno compilations, Brian eno, pink floyd, and it was in about 92-94 that massive attack arrived, and Autechre, THE ORB, Aphex twin, THE BLACK DOG (originators of IDM ) techno abstractism, BEAUMONT HANNANT, LFO, FSOL!!!! Union Jack first album, also was ambient in an early trance music style and was contemporary with The Orb. YOU FORGET future sound of london??!?!? these were the FIRST producers of URBAN, drug influenced AMBIENT music which was slow techno with a beat in it and ambient synthesizer experimentation for space cadets. beatless ambient was not popular in shops back then, I practically never heard beatless ambient in the music shops prior to about 1998. The word IDM seemed to arrive in force in about 1998, to describe album which were a departure from ambient and had mostly glitch work in them and attempted to make temporal irregularity in the chord progressions and temporal irregularity to regular percussion. All the artists that you state are actually proficient music writers, Jenkinson, a fan of Aphex Twin, BOC, are great at chords and melodies, and all those most famous artists used a lot research for their synth sounds, ambient moods, and musicality (chords)... I always associated IDM with a try-hard cut and paste music style which tried to copy the individual styles of all the great artists you mention, but with a fast, copy paste, chopped up ambient approch which didn't do justice to the considerable effort that was in the first albums of the artists of your list. The only one who is truly proficient as a musician is Jenkinson who writes well enough to be able to make music in any style of his choosing without even trying hard. and Aphex, who doesnt care any more about hte end sound, even BOC who are awesome musicians take considerable effort to weave together a musical composition with an experimental edge, it's more difficult for them than for jenkinson for example, but they have more attention to the end result in their recent releases. I believe that the first use of INTELLIGENCE as an acutal music style in GB was INTELLIGENT DRUM AND BASS IN 1996, to differentiate Artistic DNB from Rave DNB... Ingelligent ambient, Dance music, didn't exist prior to 1996, it was still called ambient, experimental ambient, artificial intelligence was just a fairly obscure compilation among 20-50 similar compilations of UK urban ambient of those times. IDM only became a word AFTER intelligent DNB mad the word intelligent commonly accessible to describe a music style, and then AFAIK, the word IDM arrived 2-3 years after Intelligent DNB. I am just stating my recollection of music terms and styles of the 90's, having researched them avidly. that i never heard IDM word used prior to 1997 and certainly i heard it after i heard many albums and references of the IDB genre. The music shops never had an IDM label on anything, no IDM classification for some albumbs, but Intelligent DNB did certainly exist in 1996 as a subdivider for the HMV catalogue and on CD labels long before i heard the word IDM.
Oval!? Process was and still is incredible.
Venetian Snares?
Boards of Canada! Big it up! There should've been some love for Radiohead's "Kid A" too or Public Service Broadcasting's "Inform. Educate. Entertain"!
I too, quote what I've just said on youtube videos
no monolake? without their work lots of kids wont be doing electronic music today, and im not only talking about the music, but their tools!
i am sure everyone here will agree on this list :)
the best labels for IDM that i knew was perhaps rephlex records: www.discogs.com/Musiq-Tango-NVectif/master/21332 founded by aphex twin and another in 1991
this was awesome too: www.discogs.com/Various-Dream-Injection/release/33098
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this label is a lineup of IDM Artists long before the internet pc's were even used for making music. www.discogs.com/label/1131-General-Production-Recordings-GPR
Dream Injection complilation illustrates how Freeform urban experimental synth music was in the early 90's compared to how style-dependant it became after, and how much it tried to copy individual artist styles later one. IDM for me is synonymous with stagnation compared to compilations like dream injection, which had many famous IDM Artists, but also all the other experimental urban ambient techno producers of the time. In fact beatless ambient and drone didn't exist much back then, it was probably called drone or something, and it wasnt commercialized, so ambient was all called ambient in the early 90s.
Why do ppl pronounce it Mischievious? It’s mischievous. As it’s spelled. Drives me crazy.
Autobahn?
No Plaid, no like...
It’s not even the best of each artist.
FlyLo?
INTELLIGENT dance music.. only for smart people like you)
because: Metal gear solid 2
It's a top 10 - which is way to short of a list - especially for IDM fans who can handle a much longer list. Top 25 (or more) would be much better and would allow for more entries and less bitching - especially if you view the list in no particular order once it's finished. Think of it as not a contest but a "list of top IDM albums one should hear at least 2 times in their lives" :) All of us like confirmation on our favorites but we all want to make sure there isn't a very important album we may have overlooked or not given enough attention to. That's why I look at lists like these ;) And for the comments - which may point to obvious albums that didn't make the cut but are very worthy of checking out. Cheers.
SAW FTW!
Theres a new IDM/experimental rapper named Saul Braddock. I personally think he's pretty cool. You should all check him out haha
amu.se/album/saul-braddock-king-of-the-dead
1:30 really, really cringy comment
lol at this stupid chart, aphex debut and four tet are not idm, jan jeliinek is glitch and minimal techno
Good job by the English a
WHAT ABOUT SEVEN ARK NOISE OF THE NEW HE MADE THE BEATS ON HIS PC COMPUTA
Great suggestion. Thanks a lot!!!!
Com Truise
Not IDM but still pretty fun.
Four Tet sucks. I would take them out.