lost IDM classics

Search Ilkae and Proswell for original, emotional sounds. These guys aren't really cerebral enough to fall under the IDM tag (as it is currently defined, anyway), but it is bleepy bloopy melodic electronic music that you can't dance to.

pretty much the whole of kinesthesia's empathy box, though much of it isn't very D.

Breakbeat-loving IDM fans might also enjoy Electric Highway by C.J. Bolland.

you do that all the time.

I wonder what other goodies were lurking in all those IDM records I liquidated before I left Michigan. I did not go back for Christmas this year. I am dying to see what I have in the three boxes of records I left in storage. I don't remember which ones I kept and which ones I sold. Hell, I don't even remember half of what I bought. ;)

I would also like to give biggups to Jega.

yes on CiM, no on latter-day plaid (pretty much everything after not for threes)

rocketmann! is my nomination. fantastic, prescient shit. everyone who dug kelley polar should listen to rocketmann!.

Not classic, certainly lost and idm.

Does anyone remember an artist who released a bunch of cds circa 97-99ish? One word name - possibly german.

Little to no 12"s but a lot of self releases full length cds.

Very idm, very post autechre. Not funkstorung!

I remember the existence of such an artist from old forced exposure and mdos listings but the name is lost.

self released

Does anyone remember an artist who released a bunch of cds circa 97-99ish? One word name - possibly german.

ha ha oh dear

schlammpeitziger?

Oval?

oh self-released nm

t. raumschmiere?

Joseph Nothing - Disc'o Nostalgia

Markant? Except that was vinyl.

So like, the opposite of what you're saying except the german and self-released part.

Yes, Markant! I had completely misremembered, thanks!

Oh, cool! Happy to help.

wow, gang - we solved that mystery pretty fast!

In the early 2000s I ran an online community for IDM bedroom jerks. We put together some not bad compilations. Eventually we got a nascent 65DaysOfStatic onboard and started getting calls from Rephlex Records, but nothing lasting came from it. Don't know whether they're available online at all anymore, but if you're looking for IDM obscurities, you can do worse than these:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-CcommD-I/release/6867
http://www.discogs.com/Various-CcommD-II/release/6868
http://www.discogs.com/Various-CcommD-III/release/6869
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Ccommd-IV/release/6008
http://www.discogs.com/Various-TEFOSAVOutput/release/469089

http://www.discogs.com/Alex-Cortex-Inward-CTRL/release/142594
this is really good, reminds me of ilkae at times but more chilled and funky. next gen idm is best with short track durations.

the 7 minute track on there is great

the CiM album on Ann Aimee is similarly awesome

never really got into the other two albums they put out (the dribs and lucky & easy) but peeps looking for obscure IDM might dig

not so obscure but seemingly forgotten - jega's spectrum + geometry, astrobotnia i + iii

have u heard the newest aleksi perala stuff? i posted abt it in an ancient astrobotnia thread but that prob dropped off sna immediately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL05YPqhPmTtJCfPdWzQTOGLgKuJ0mwyqj&v=BjqAbNQakrc&feature=player_embedded

yeah this new aleksi perala stuff is crazy!

http://www.ovuca.com

https://soundcloud.com/milanw/capella

soft serve stuff, i know. this sounds so much like esa ruoho it's crazy, but i like it better than esa's stuff (except for his contribution to merck's ambient comp aurora, which is beautiful and harsh but not in a cliched fenneszy/timhecker way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFD7wFgurLE

yeah this new aleksi perala stuff is crazy!

I just found out about this guy recently from one of the campus radio stations and it's really cool, interesting stuff. I haven't really broken down his tuning system but I do like how it sounds. I've been listening to his latest release on Bandcamp. He's got a huge catalogue, though. Any tips on where to start with it? I see nakh and clouds were into this five years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpXnWaZfPBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=EmntypXXGo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXTqqlsaJ5k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmYlKlOBEyk

This is really, really good.

Those unearthed 90s Being jams on Firecracker sounding pretty "classic" in a Detroit-y B12 / Black Dog / early Hawtin sort of way. Need to give it a proper listen.

https://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/firec030-broxburn-funk

Yeah its a great collection.

Gridlock - Formless

Such a brilliant album, definitely needs its due.

https://ringsounds.bandcamp.com/album/unrest

Kinda cool

unrest. : rei harakami 1st album

that’s a cool album, I love “more elbow”!

nice record

my fave harakami production will always be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRTkimQJWM

rei harakami is so cool, it's like IDM set in the Katamari Damacy universe

plus he did 2 albums with Akiko Yano

those yanokami records are great. i could maybe do with a few less covers (even tho they do put their own spin on it) but stuff like 瞳を閉じて is beautiful. i might listen to them more than the solo records by either artist? (this is probably weird)

IDM set in the Katamari Damacy universe

:)

Listening to MD - Between the Gaps and being reminded why this record was hyped up in my circles back in the day. Gorgeous album.

https://i.discogs.com/poZATM9XEUmoCBDjs-QL0QO6UYuIzS5An94lnGfMk5A/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:250/w:250/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0Nzc1/NS0xMTMyNTA0MTcw/LmpwZWc.jpeg daze maxim - "same place the bot got smashed" 2000. muscular skippety grooves that really go some almost has a herky jerky no-wave feel

I have always felt that Bochum Welt's 90s stuff is woefully underappreciated. Everything he did on Rephlex is solid gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxwRhM6COLI

that was just reissued this year on central processing unit. love module 2 too, especially “radiopropulsive”.

that was great. so much Rephlex I have yet to check out.

discussed upthread but on the rephlex tip you should definitely check astrobotnia (aka ovuca / mr colundi aleksi perälä) if you haven't already

thanks, I did get that at the time, although looks like I never ripped it to my iTunes library.

Only ever seen it mentioned once - in Tom Ewing's top 100 singles of the 90s - but this remix is astonishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAE-TCzFHlU

He has a fair amount of obscure gems. His album with Mike P is excellent, and there's the two late 90s ambient albums on fax which feature some absolutely stellar DX-7 action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_rXLx4mKdQ

non-obscure gems, too! i recently picked up "ginger" and "g spot" on cd (used). hadn't listened in decades, somehow remembered it as much more ... techno? in a luke slater vein or something. they're definitely not what i'd call "idm" but fit in nicely with the rest of the "artificial intelligence" crew. i particularly like the "world music" touches (sort of along the lines of what black dog or ken ishii were up to) and the "speedy j !ive" CD that came as a bonus w/ this particular edition of "g-spot"

i'd never heard that remix. i remember loving "public energy no. 1" when it came out, another one i haven't listened to in decades. i was really really into lfo's "advance" in 96/97 and can recall thinking that he'd clearly been influenced it, or trying to better it. i think at the time i had difficulty telling the difference between the uk electronic music press and what i imagined was a cohesive, global "intelligent techno" scene, so nowadays i'm a lot less likely to buy into the idea that this producer is reacting to that producer or w/e, but there's definite mark bell vibes in that remix!

Ginger is such a lovely album, have in rotation more than any of the other original AI albums

There was a shit four tet remix of this one IIRC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGNfwcCuMM

Is there a thread where this is already discussed?

https://thedeepark.com

I was a bit sceptical that I needed an 8 hour IDM mix, but I love it.

i'll check it out - where did you hear about it?

yeah this is fabulous

it is excellent.
i got the nudge about this the day before i had to do a 7 hour round trip to brighton to pick up mk2 from university.
dropped this onto a usb stick.
and yeah, it's the perfect soundtrack to a very long day of driving.

good lord just 40 mins into this and it's like heroin in my veins. I can't wait to throw this on for an extended road trip or psychedelic trip

Lot of really nice fx/layers added in on everything I've heard so far - this is pretty ambitious so far! If the quality and ingenuity is sustained to the end, that's quite the accomplishment.

Eight hours is the right length, great stuff

somehow i missed that you can, er, scroll down on the website, to find not only an interview with the creator but a mini write up on every single track.

that’s cool but it’s sort of weak that half the the track list is AFX or AE

I'm actually quite fine with that - Ae and AFX were insanely prolific between 92-98 between their main releases, side projects and remixes, and their respective sounds dominated the scene and influenced other artists in ways that often evoked "copycat" labels. What this mix does is somewhat accurately reflect my own listening habits of the era, and when I wanted to scratch the IDM itch it mostly contained releases that housed the tracks in this mix. It also seemingly has like 90% of what I would consider "essential tracks" of the era too, regardless of artist, and in that context it's understandable why RDJ and Booth/Brown dominate here.

There are some notable absences though. While Cylob has one track in the mix, there's no Kinesthesia tracks to speak of, no Jega, Speedy J, Plastikman, or Arovane (maybe a reach but his first two LPs are all time IDM classics to me). No mix is perfect, and certainly some core artists here are underrepresented (Boards of Canada, FSOL, Global Communication, Plaid/Black Dog), but in terms of adhering to a vibe and the core sources of those vibes, it hits a home run.

in the unlikely event anyone doesn't know this, itunes has a "remember playback position" option which is helpful for this mix

Speaking of "copycat" artists and staying on topic with this thread, I kinda feel Brothomstates album Claro is an IDM classic and oft overlooked, despite getting released on Warp.

The closer, Viimo is seriously all time imho. Big Cichli vibes, but much more accessible and catchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsNuSBByz4

my friend made me a dope brothomstates mix cd-r in college

where my Merck heads at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJdLGJOmDo

whaddup - my first post to this thread was repping MD's Between the Gaps!

Correction! It's "Between Gaps". Damn, I think I've been adding the "the" in there since I first heard it 25 years ago

Ah nice!

That said, because of you I went a bit in a Merck hole. Lot of stuff I overlooked on that label and will happily visit in the coming weeks, so thanks!

Also - apparently one of my favorite "lush" electronic albums of all time, Kettel and Secede's glorious When Can, got a remaster release in May with 2 extra tracks! The remaster is actually really lovely, and sounds quite a bit clearer and crisper. Both are Merck vets iirc

https://kettelandsecede.bandcamp.com/album/when-can-deluxe-edition

Oh shit. I love Born In A Tropical Swamp but haven't heard much else.

oh wow i've been enjoying that record for years but didnt expect anyone else on this board to know it

Listening to the Brothomstates album "Claro" now, haven't listened or even thought about this in years. I own it on CD, one of the few albums I bought after only hearing a couple of tracks at the record store while browsing, what a cool discovery that was

really like this Deep Ark mix but I enjoy it most when I hear something new (like whatever's playing at 4 hours 43 minutes)

Role Model album by Cex is still classic..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFZF-RwURA

also this Tigrics album is pretty nice:
https://exiles-electronics.bandcamp.com/album/muzzle-soul

Love that Cex album.

Back in the early days of 'post-dubstep' I did a remix for him on Kid606's label - nowhere near 'lost IDM classic' status but I was pretty happy with it at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWc9C4RIOIU

Nice!