lost IDM classics

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

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

Thanks for the CiM heads-up, picked it up on bandcamp last night! Not listened properly yet but am a big fan of "Reference" so I'm looking forward to it.

(not IDM but) the new John Beltran also on the Delsin bandcamp sounded good too but I was running out of time to preview things.

Churchill/Desantis is a good vibe, thanks! And I remember checking out that Boulderdash album way back when but it's sounding better today than I remembered, plus I see that after not putting anything out between 2001-2016 there have been 5 new albums since, including one just a week ago, so I've got a lot to catch up on.

wow yeah I got a lot of joy from ilkae in the 00s, was just listening to a remix of theirs on this early machine drum EP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzOwNkI8AxE

And yeah, <3 CiM and Ann Aimme stuff.. Headspace is a label I need to check out.

Astrobotnia were the act whose name I've been trying to remember for two years now! Thank you ancient thread.

yay, CiM. I still get key tracks from Reference pop into my head on occasion

Churchill/Desantis is a good vibe, thanks!
Headspace is a label I need to check out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO5pe2ZZY6c

Another classic Headspace/Churchill

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/73456

idm revival imminent?

ftr i look both of these DJs a lot but this comp seems a bit unnecessary

Astrobotnia were the act whose name I've been trying to remember for two years now! Thank you ancient thread.

Aleksi has been on a tear recently; witness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtfZarN-bdE&list=OLAK5uy_l98u7G0pbtYAGeLo-SqAxSRMkasugHIDw

https://youtu.be/JtfZarN-bdE

thanks for linking that Aleksi album, I'm about to buy it - but it's not recent right? from 2014?

there is no old or new, there is no time ... only infinite colundi

Carpark label had some interesting IDM shit going on for a few years.

Jake Mandell - Love Songs for Machines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ6k-zHO10s

Marumari - Supermogadon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjfqfkfd6sc

https://farmersmanual.bandcamp.com/album/11840-10-11-1

Buy the new (old) Farmers Manual for €1 and a new edit will be automatically generated - or possibly just automatically snipped out of a 90s recording - and added as a new track on the end, up to a total of 100 tracks (NB this stage seems to involve some manual intervention so I think there's already a backlog).

I assume 100 people were going to buy this whether I went in or not (who knows though!) but it's an interesting concept.

Pub - Summer got reissued if you're interested.

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

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