current love: BitMeddler "Shitmix 2000"
wooo yeah!

current love here

µ-Ziq - Within A Sound

Oh, I bought Venetian Snares' Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 last week. SAW is fucking amazing, but I don't think it has the "raw" ambient sound that SAW Volume II has. The VS disc is just painful to listen to. And by that I mean really fuckin' cool. Don't listen on an empty stomach though. I've been into to rococo rot. big time lately. I think I'm gonna order their first 2 discs, The Amateur View and Music is a Hungry Ghost soon. I can't recommend their new album, Hotel Morgen enough.

*bump* just saw this thread for the first time. another idm fan here, and i bet you're not surprised if i say that my favourites are autechre and boards of canada. i'm more into the emotional and melodic stuff so i like AE's early releases, such as incunabula and amber, the best. i also got a few plaid cd's but i'm still getting into them. i have to praise the band that's perhaps not been mentioned here as much as they should: future sound of london. their album dead cities is one of my all time favourites, very dark, intelligent and beautiful. definitely worth checking out. lifeforms is something totally different, slow and emotional ambient but a wonderful experience as well. orbital is another favourite and again something quite different. in sides contains some of the most beautiful tracks i've heard..

i'm also a big fan of psychedelic trance such as hallucinogen that was already mentioned here, and i think that genre would deserve its own thread.. but if you're at all interested, hallucinogen is the name you should start with.

Have you ever listened to ISDN? I'm not sure as to when it came out but I think it was before Dead Cities. However, if you liked Dead Cities you'll love ISDN.

Actually I own a copy of ISDN as well but somehow I haven't gotten into it as much as Dead Cities or Lifeforms. Maybe it's just because it was the last one I bought and I haven't yet given it as many listens as the other two. I've heard a lot of positive comments about ISDN though, so maybe I should just listen to it a few more times. Hmm.. I think I'll give it a spin tonight :)

I have Dead Cities and Lifeforms but I haven't gotten around to picking up ISDN yet. Looks like a trip to Virgin or Tower is in order...

IDM or not. You should all buy the Downward Spiral Deluxe Edition SACD. Or I will never speak to you again.

but... why...
is there anything super duper special that comes with it aside from remastered tracks?

Hmm, interesting thread. :)

I'd never really explored the IDM genre before, but I have heard and LOVED Boards of Canada, so it looks like I'll have to give some of the other mentioned bands a listen!

The Flashbulb and Frog Pocket.
My two new favorite artists.
The drill'n'bass (similar to the more popular artists squarepusher or aphex twin), meets classical music and other unexpected forms of "other" music. Flashbulb is a little more diverse, and has things that go in completely other directions, but his best is by far the fusion with classical. Frog Pocket is more consistent and heart wrenching.
Beautiful.