All IDM is based off old-school Final Fantasy music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCIfTzsHnkc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVRCapArJlQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fe0wNariU&feature=related

http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ197 (track 5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOOgtY5Xk0k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonTM2Uj3WY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CK2hx377iU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYY5WgEMT-I

and I don't know what this is based off of but it's obvious FF as fuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NpGRuAfYS0

Lol, Venetain Snare, wisp and m-ziq is all of IDM.

lol at people caring about IDM in 2010

lol at idm in general

well this is where you guys would come up with more tracks/examples if this forum weren't retarded but ok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqZb7hY1S0

This track is pretty aphexian imo.

if FSOL is considered IDM I think this was inspiration in the opposite direction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l59EhziGhFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ag12LOE53c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZMWszd5SRk

always loved this one

To the OP... i gotta say... you didn't nail it 100%, but those times you do, it's quite fascinating.

Clatterbox-Powerup on Cottage Industries COmp

uses melody from Jurassic Park for the NES

lol at the wisp video. DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK FOR FREE AT 2MPROMO

  On 11/24/2010 at 1:55 AM, Al5x said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqZb7hY1S0

 

This track is pretty aphexian imo.

best game ever...the only other game that comes close is fallout 2

ive always got some pretty strong FF/JRPG vibes from some of wisp's music , its one of the reasons i like it as much as i do :music:

huh. so this is why my friends refer to the music I listen to as "nintendo music".

Everybody noticed the link to the Frog Pocket track right??? I couldn't find a youtube of it so I just linked to Planet Mu site

  On 11/24/2010 at 1:55 AM, Al5x said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqZb7hY1S0

 

This track is pretty aphexian imo.

I did a remix of it for the hidden track on an album I put out last year...

"]Milieu - [Hidden Track]

My roommates are convinced that my music was made for video games and went so far as to say that they would not listen to it outside of one.

I love me some Wisp and Frog Pocket.

to be fair I didn't know what drum and bass was until Metal Gear Solid 2