who are the leading lights

just curious as to who you think are the big names in IDM right now. and by right now I mean who are still active and feel like they've come into their prime over the past 5 or so years.

i say Clark.

  On 4/7/2010 at 9:13 AM, Backson said:

i say Clark.

clark is pure 100% idm

shitty laptop vst crap

no other suggestions?

wisp has matured a lot, though that's not to take anything away from his earlier releases... arovane imo would be the fucking daddy right now if he was still releasing

probably ceephax.

charanjit singh

the genre never really made sense of course but it doesn't seem like the interesting stuff happens within whatever IDM was. New electronicky stuff that sounds fresh and innovative... Flying Lotus and all the wonky hip hop scene is its own thing... I don't know if Kettel is IDM? Maybe, he's pretty hot shit in my book. Kelpe, not really IDM but I don't know what. Modeselektor, Apparat, Four Tet, Burial, Bibio I suppose there are plenty of people I'm checking for in electronic music but I don't know where this falls into the IDM bucket

tom york

  On 4/7/2010 at 5:43 PM, margaret thatcher said:

probably ceephax.

Clark

Kelpe

Clark, Ceephax, Icasea, Raster-Norton

IDM is dead though.

Ambulance

Proem

Fennez

Tim Hecker

Frank Bretschneider

Four Tet

Jega

Alvo Noto

Moderat/Apparat

Monolake

Arovane

Cepia

Is Moderat IDM? I fucking love Moderat, really happy they are touring again.

Wisp and Clark are the only ones that spring to mind.

tim hecker/fennesz as idm, lol.

their beats are wicked!

Wisp!

Aleksi Perala

Ceephax

eod

Chris Moss Acid

Alvo Noto

and

having said that though Aphex will probably release something this year that destroys the universe.

autechre/peter christopherson/soisong

  On 4/7/2010 at 7:03 PM, Glass Plate said:

IDM is dead though.

"IDM" is silly. I just use the word to save time. I really just mean any experimental electronic stuff.