I luv ya flah. Unfortunately, flah's assessment couldn't be farther from the truth, but this list will make it seem like he's telling the truth only because you have found my dirty little secret -- I am an IDM junkie. There, I said it! It feels good to be out of the closet lol.
Actually, ludendorf, you had already caught my eye with the old plastikman avatar. I had that album back in the day, and I spent way too many hours on acid staring at that album cover to forget that character . . . . As soon as I saw your avatar weeks ago, my heart leapt for joy, but I thought maybe coincidence only. But now I know we have three IDM junkies around. This is all I like now.
Below is a list of several IDM artists. My favorites are in bold.
Amon Tobin
Aphex Twin - the holy king
Autechre - the gods have spoken. Please check out this amazing interview with autechre in sound on sound:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/articles/autechre.htm
Autechre uses max/msp by cycling'74 to design everything, and the boys screenshots in this interview rule!
bllix
Boards of Canada - kind of ambient/idm
Bogdan Raczynski
Bola
Boom Bip
Chris Clark
Cylob -The king of supercollider. We have been exchanging emails lately, which is like, too cool. you can get lots of great free cylob here :
http://www.durftal.com/music/cylob/ Please check out the britain's greatest dj set, his work with dmx, and the unreleased tracks. Also go to sonenvir to download supercollider and start your journey. If you have trouble with getting started, let me know and I can give you Dave Cottle's email where he will send you his university of utah supercollider tutorial which is mind blowing. I am now starting the supercollider subforum at electromusic.com and copy chunks to
http://www.idmforums.com/ where you should be, son. Did I mention I like cylob?
Doormouse
Flanger
Fluorescent Grey
Four Tet
Funckarma
Funkstörung
Girl Talk
Global Goon
Hexstatic
Holy Fuck
Hrvatski
Jack Dark
Jack Dangers
Jamie Lidell
Jason Forrest
Jega
Jello
Kid 606
Kit Clayton
Knifehandchop
Lackluster
Lesser
Machine Drum
Marumari
Matmos
Matthew Herbert
Mazzadius
Monolake - the man who created ableton live too! don't care much for his music myself, but an undeniable genius
Neotropic
Neutronic
NNY
Nobukazu Takemura
Numbers
The Orb- old school idm
Orbital - old school idm part 2
Otto Von Schirach
Phonecia
Plaid - everyone is amazed by his melody and harmony usage and his really unique approach
Prefuse 73
Quinoline Yellow
R_Garcia
Richard Devine
Savath and Savalas
Si Begg
The Soft Pink Truth
Squarepusher - like a cross between a jazz hepcat and a german philosopher. he uses a fretless jazz bass and reaktor by native instruments
Sutekh
Syndrone
Team Doyobi
Telefon Tel Aviv
Ulrich Schnauss
Venetian Snares - deserve to be mentioned if nothing else for their graphic sadomasochistic cover art by trevor brown. check out his scribbles here
http://www.pileup.com/babyart/_top.htm
Wagon Christ
zegunder
μ-ziq - i love this ol' nerd. he's very cool, though few know
by the way, idm listeners in europe were actually measured to have the highest average iq's of any genre of music. While, of course, that does not mean idm will make you smart nor that someone listening to any other genre of music is dumb, you must certainly be a person of some intelligence and depth to be attracted to this music.
check out cliphop radio at
http://www.somafm.com/
tracks may be purchased at
http://www.bleep.com/
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