What was the first IDM album?

^Add a breakbeat in there & it really wouldn't sound out of place on an early 90s IDM compilation album.

why are there people claiming early acid house is IDM? fucking n00bs.

Come on, Aphex Twin didn't make the first "IDM" album.

  On 7/15/2011 at 2:36 PM, BCM said:

why are there people claiming early acid house is IDM? fucking n00bs.

for once i agree with the man, BCM!

late 80's early acid is not IDM. and Raymond Scott is not IDM.. wut!? - anything from the 50's and 60's should be dissmissed also.

OK, Newbuild cannot be Acid House and IDM at the same time, my mistake.

lol that raymond scott stuff

i'm not that learned on older electronic acts but computer world gets my vote.

  On 7/15/2011 at 3:11 PM, mcbpete said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512490.stm ?

the volume on that player goes to 11.

:cisfor:

I'm still not clear on what we mean by IDM here - heavily reverb electronic noises with enough rhythm to differentiate it from straight ambient, or fast, complicated drum machine/break beats in uncommon time signatures? Because there have been albums resembling the former since at least the 1950s, but the latter is probably more of a late 90s thing that doesn't really resemble the early releases of any of the big names in the genre.

kraftwerk – computer world

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  On 7/15/2011 at 1:27 AM, yek said:

for sure this

that's it....

btw/ let's not forget Plaid - Mbuki Mvuki, LFO - Frequencies, Network's Bio Rhythm comps ...

and please.. no raymond scott, morton subotnick, delia derbyshire, mort garson, bruce haack, nik raicevic, roger roger, jj. perrey, g.boneschi, dissevelt/baltan, eric siday, bbc radiophonic workshop dudes and the likes...

i think we're discussing IDM as defined by Warp's AI series here...

  On 7/16/2011 at 1:50 PM, WOIAJO said:

i think we're discussing IDM as defined by Warp's AI series here...

In that case I think albums on Warp's AI series are the first IDM releases then

I'm not sure if the output of one record label, & people strongly influenced by that one record label, really counts as a genre.

  On 7/15/2011 at 3:11 PM, mcbpete said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512490.stm ?

i've long felt delia derbyshire was more a scientist than a musician !

not many songs out of her.

scott, on the other hand, put out multiple albums of stuff. and this is about albums, yes?

  On 7/15/2011 at 5:50 AM, Philip Glass said:

1987. NINETEEN NINETY EIGHTY SEVAN. Most of you werent even born

199087?

  On 7/16/2011 at 11:59 PM, Braintree said:

  On 7/15/2011 at 5:50 AM, Philip Glass said:

1987. NINETEEN NINETY EIGHTY SEVAN. Most of you werent even born

 

199087?

well, it's for some reason they were called Phuture..

  On 7/15/2011 at 9:26 PM, troon said:

kraftwerk – computer world

instinct records out of new york was putting out a bunch of borderline idm between 90-94

My vote is with Raymond Scott due to the album qualifier. But Varese and Schaeffer and probably a whole bunch of others could be first had they released albums.

in my very strong opinion the IDM scene was brought out of a combination of Severed Heads and Coil's early work mixed with a little bit of Art of Noise and kraftwerk. I think Aphex twin maybe won't admit it but he was obviously listening to a lot of the stuff i listed above when he jumped into the fray

  On 7/15/2011 at 3:19 PM, sirch said:

  On 7/15/2011 at 2:36 PM, BCM said:

why are there people claiming early acid house is IDM? fucking n00bs.

 

for once i agree with the man, BCM!

 

late 80's early acid is not IDM. and Raymond Scott is not IDM.. wut!? - anything from the 50's and 60's should be dissmissed also.

completely agree, and i think its my first time with you!

for me there is a fine line between really out there early industrial like Esplendor Geometrico, Severed Heads and proto IDM.

Also probably the closest artist ive heard to Aphex-like IDM that came before is VDB joel

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8WrrqT3Sw

and no im not shitting you these are both from 1987