From Edward Pond Sent Thu, Apr 16th 1998, 15:27
From Edward Pond Sent Thu, Apr 16th 1998, 15:27
>Please forgive if this has been repeated ad nauseum, but I >just joined this list, and I want to know what you folks >consider the "must have's" and "definative" IDM records >around. I am familiar with Orb and FSOL, probly the big >two, but I want to know more. As with almost any kind of music, there is a lot of this stuff about and the best thing to do is listen to as much of it as you can (by listening in record shops, buying the music or downloading off the internet) and discover what you really like. My favourites include works by Mike Paradinas (mu-Ziq), Autechre (gescom), Seefeel (Disjecta, Scala etc) and Locust (Mark van Hoen). As for what are considered 'IDM must-haves', I'd list the following records: Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (who can deny this being a classic?) mu-Ziq: Tango N' Vectif (way ahead of its time) Reload: A Collection of Short Stories (Global Communication at work here) Squarepusher: Feed me weird things (his first album) Kinesthesia: Kinesthesia volume 1 (Kobal is my fave) Warp records: Artificial Intelligence series (2 comps of the same name & several albums) Leaf records: Invisible Soundtracks volume 1 (Disjecta, Gescom, Being and Zurich) IDM is not really a type of music, but if was it would sound like the music of Richard D James. He inspired the term and this mailing list.