What was the first IDM album?

  On 2/6/2012 at 10:06 PM, Awepittance said:

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

Yeah my impression of IDM is that there had to be the "DM," Dance Music, for the "Intelligent" to distinguish itself from. So that should historically place it after techno, house, and late 80s/early 90s rave. Braindance would then be the Rephlex releases actively seeking to lampoon the term IDM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btt529zWK9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv2e89Fz0Aw

above both from 1985

i think IDM was just as much influenced by rave as it was by industrial music and kraut rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSid9ofgOw

if i was going to pick the first 'idm' album it would be hard to do since i think the transition from really wacky experimental electronic music to artificial intelligence era warp stuff took a while. IDM is just another way of saying dancey rave influenced music that was outside the box a little bit (aka experimental) imo.

I also think an imprint that is heavily neglected when talking about early IDM is the FAX records label. It leaned very much towards a chill out psychedelic dubbed out ambient vibe but there were a few very beat oriented records that rivaled warps early stuff.

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

BT - This binary universe

Alright, you guys win, and holy shit Awepittance, awesome tunes! Thanks for the history lesson :)

  On 2/6/2012 at 10:28 PM, sweepstakes said:

Alright, you guys win, and holy shit Awepittance, awesome tunes! Thanks for the history lesson :)

Yeah ditto! listening to these at work.

Quality old tunes in here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtaK1DM14Zw

http://www.discogs.com/Musicology-Musicology/master/5756

B-12 turned techno into Sci-fi, changed the game.

i have to stick with the dutchmen on this- 1957

pre dating raymond scott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoAzONw-a4

truly I would say either this record: http://www.discogs.com/Cluster-Zuckerzeit/master/9967

or http://www.discogs.com/Kraftwerk-Ralf-Florian/release/125205

or http://www.discogs.com/Harald-Grosskopf-Synthesist-Re-Synthesist/master/22033

Its very frustrating in here. I'm leaving.

80s Confield:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450fBCmTd9k

  On 4/4/2016 at 12:53 PM, sidneylooper said:

1987 Plaid:

Also, 1981 Amber:

  On 2/6/2012 at 10:13 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbi08WpWJLU

never heard of Severed Heads b4 great chune

Oz's finest and 1 of the most subversive.....find n listen to everything you can find

The Zabriskie Point soundtrack had a wee Pink Floyd fillip called Heart Beat Pig Meat that touches on this kinda spectrum

  On 7/15/2011 at 1:44 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Computer World

Also,

[youtubehd]YMdd1B9Q1wg[/youtubehd]

been a night of Sun Ra tonight & thank the gods for the experience

surely this bloke got into the entrails of the sounds touched on here like some space druid inspecting a recent sacrifice?

zoolook

Was Orbital's first album slightly "idm"?

I know its not as early as some of the other posts on this thread, I really just wanted to share because its such a cool track. I have many good memories of listening to this album when I was a youngster.

Most of this thread is the equivalent of saying Robert Johnson was the first rock'n'roll musician.