lost IDM classics

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

Access to Arasaka - Void();

Cepia (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfzyD9fF17s

https://youtu.be/xoRE1PM7Pfs

I don’t know how to embed from zing.

I had a surprisingly hard time finding Pub’s Summer. Surely that one was a classic. Shocked Pub never released anything else.

Also loved Global Goon’s Vatican Nitez - especially Stan’s Slaves. Not sure if it qualifies as lost or classic.

Another favorite of the era is Savath & Savalas’ Folk Songs for Trains, Trees, and Honey which is easy to find on Youtube so again I guess not lost anymore than the genre itself is.

I've got nothing to do with this project, but I was the one who started it coming up to 20 years ago https://tefosav.bandcamp.com/

some of my tracks appear on the earlier comps as dog latin and autofire

Not sure how lost or classic this is, it's only from 2012 but it is a lot like melodic early 90s Black Dog. The album is really nice if a bit unfocussed; The producer's thing is mostly Detroit-inspired techno in funny / shifting time signatures.

https://youtu.be/cbI7JOwkC5A

I did a couple of computer music releases around the turn of the millennium IDM glut era, one of which is very lost, surely only a handful of copies got out there. The production is rough but the ideas still good, I think. Using generative and evolutionary processes for melodies and rhythms (but 'playing' the systems) and lots of granular synthesis and that. Probably slightly more fun than that sounds ;-)

Another favorite of the era is Savath & Savalas’ Folk Songs for Trains, Trees, and Honey which is easy to find on Youtube so again I guess not lost anymore than the genre itself is.

This is a really lovely album and I'm sad it's not on Spotify

myloveilove

o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsqHfi73l80&list=PLA__S2xSRpHHsY7Xhi23HKmEemtZlWofX

Ooops fixed the link

Guess playlists have issues auto-embedding here

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.

― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r)

the stuff as astrobotnia and ovuca is twinkly clicky early 00s

as aleksi perala, the mental union 2CD album is really fantastic, lots of breakbeat and acid references

MU3 (as AP Musik) might be his most perfect album overall, just beautiful minimal compositions

all the colundi sequence albums are worth hearing at least, but there's so many of them that they blur together somewhat. really cool minimalist techno, kind of like a chiller jeff mills.

This Aleksi Perala track finally made me a believer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0XgaIrlMKw

Usually when this thread is bumped I question whether I ever really liked IDM at all. That was pretty good though, except for the people humming tunelessly and groaning grotesquely in the background.

i'm going to get all street-team about dennis busch's work as james din a4/ pop dylan / krieghelm hundewasser etc, which never really seems to get much recognition. goofy mushroomsy kraut skank like MoM / schlammpeitziger but with malfunctioning casio / deep house M & A Oehlen undercurrents. no mean gothy metal minor key "my algorithm beats yours" but crosswired jimmy jam & terry lewis with woozin drones & shit presets. sadly the pingipung "best of" & the jan jelinek mix set on faitiche don't concentrate on the more wayward aspects but hey ho. check some out

thanks for the reminder about christ. bandcamp has HOURS of his stuff that i don't know, all for cheap.

goofy mushroomsy kraut skank like MoM / schlammpeitziger but with malfunctioning casio / deep house M & A Oehlen undercurrents

OK, I'm sold! anywhere good to start if you don't think the "best of"s are, well, the best of?

o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C. -- otm, totally underrated classic

I had a surprisingly hard time finding Pub’s Summer. Surely that one was a classic. Shocked Pub never released anything else.

didn't he set up Ampoule records and release a bunch of mostly his own stuff on that? maybe you weren't counting that

proswell - carrot dossier for extremely melodic complexly emotional slightly video gamey idm

xp.
you can still sample a few james din a4 / esel releases at decks.de

I absolutely kick myself for not picking up ESEL 03 when browsing in a Copenhagen record shop a few years ago. All Dennis Busch records should be buy on sight. Miss Kittin mixes in his 'Flaming Creature' with Madonna's 'Material Girl (extended mix)' on her '@ Fritz Love Radio - Love Parade 2001' mix.. devastating.

I guess he's sort of a fit for Sonig or A-Musik which I love.

Feeling this solar x reissue. Crazy how all that delay knob tweaking is so all over recent productions

Friend of mine specifically requested idm artists who might be good to collaborate with on a ballet. Out of the ten artists I sent her, she liked one. Her reply started "Yeah, dance is tough ... "

dennis busch's "total youth" on pingipung in his own name virtually indistinguishable from prime vibert, but not in that encroaching fremdschämen falty dl way.

https://img.discogs.com/qwHKuJUI0sQnw7LiLamGHQRgq_s=/fit-in/587x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-84812-1393549421-7360.jpeg.jpgkinda jeff millsy but w/ a dash of j.moss & a hint of m.fell in 1998.

I know it's been brought up elsewhere but this absolutely fits the bill for me:

Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture
https://youtu.be/jsM0c9CnBxA

The sub bass mixing on this record is way way way ahead of its time. Micro Machines is my favorite track.

Who was I listening to a while back? Interloper. I can't remember why. Their/his debut album Augur would have fit right in with Warp's Artificial Intelligence series, albeit that it came out in 1996, so it sounds a bit out-of-date. The later albums were apparently trip-hop / downtempo, but the debut was a bit like Ginger or very early Autechre. But a few years too late, which might be why it's so obscure. Also the discogs photo makes him look like Steve Winwood, which is wrong. If you want to be a successful electronic musician you have to be thin and young. Can I make a Youtube video appear in this post? Let's see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uwhTw92pM

That was easier than I expected / a complete failure (delete as applicable).

https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools/by-second-woman
https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools/by-second-woman-1
https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools/700358bc5-by-second-woman

just discovered Second Woman.. it's pretty rad

New Proswell for pre-order! First in over a decade apparently.

https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/album/gain

(I've only heard that one preview track but I'm excited so I thought I'd give it a plug. Hadn't realised Schematic was still putting stuff out, and looks like it's not all the hypertechnical glitch stuff of old if Proswell and Crash Course In Science are on there - any other recommendations from their bandcamp?)

Looks like there have only ever been three posts on ilm about Wauvenfold, none later than 2002, none more than a mention, so yeah, lost.

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

stoked re: Proswell!!

I asked String Theory / Thorny Tigers to put their 2002 ep Anhedonia up on Bandcamp, and they did. For Midwesterners who grew up on 90s alt-rock then found Warp Records:

https://thornytigers.bandcamp.com/album/anhedonia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTb4dlByJfc

Aw this is nice:

String Theory's 2002 Anhedonia EP CD/download available now on Bandcamp.

We found a box of Anhedonia CDs in a dark corner of the basement, and having seen some renewed interest in this album from the internet, we've made it available for purchase and download for the first time in many years.

2002 was an amazing time for Chicago's close-knit electronic/IDM scene. For a brief moment, before the bottom dropped out of the physical record industry, there was magic happening in Chicago every weekend. The epicenter was Bob and Ray-Rod's Monday night "Play" residency at Danny's. Weekend Records and Soap was the lemon-scented retail HQ and a magnetic hub for in-store performers from locals as well as artists from Detroit and Berlin. Pete Toalson and Tom Windish were bringing Warp and Rephlex artists to the Empty Bottle.

Anhedonia (crl002) was the second release from Chicago's much-too-briefly-extant Consumers Research and Development Label. We are still grateful to Geoffrey and Jodi for putting the effort and cash into documenting this wonderful moment in Chicago.

We hope you’ll take a moment to experience this document of a more optimistic time.

ilkae has his/their* entire discography at only $9.15 for Bandcamp Friday and is in a bad housing situation at present so any $$ will help out:

https://ilkae.bandcamp.com/

I know there's always a lot to spend money on these days so thanks and sorry for the vicarious plug.

* used to be a duo and is now just one guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDAOOH8QGnE

wow that is ill and chill

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!