IDM of the Year!

ppl who think squarepusher is dubstep r fucking dumb!!!!! he's obv complextro

  On 3/19/2012 at 10:44 AM, apeterlives said:

cryptowen:

(1) making the main melody a steady 3 note progression on a thick pad that goes all DOOO...DOOOOOO....DAAAAAAAA over & over.

(2) Playing 4ths or 5ths or some such

(3) putting a reverb preset on it doesn't make it heavily atmospheric

(4) sampling dialogue from an old movie without significant alteration

(5) slowing down and/or adding reverb to a field recording & calling it a day

(6) clean 808s in ambient

(7) name-dropping synth gear in your track titles and/or artist name

(8) recording your entire album on a tape recorder

(9) making your album cover: a picture of clouds, a picture of your gear, an old polaroid, random geometric shape,

yek:

(10) put lotss of reverb on yer bass drums

mokz:

(11) 4/4 time signature

(12) western sense of tonality

(13) amen break

(13.5) minute long "wave your hands in the air" breaks

npoess:

(14) tb303

soundwave:

(15) atypical pad chords

(16) long boring intros before beat

(17) stutter glitch fx 90's idm

(18) snare rushes

(19) sidechain bass drum

(20) swingy minimal house machinedrum beats

(21) tr909

(22) tr808 used poorly

(23) ambient music w/ piano

(24) screechy flat dubstep baseline that have no bass

(25) 'found sound' put thru max/msp preset

(26) supersaw trance

(26.1) sine wave microtonal sounds

(26.2) hipster kraut rock modular analogue noodling

alcofribas:

(27) house with piano

(28) atonal idm classical with beats

(29) ambient with guitar, delay+reverbs

(30) field recording

(31) live drums

(31) sexy women voices

(32) robotic male voices

(33) homemade instrument

(34) making music with 'processes' -- process over final product

(35) 80s themes

(36) indie film scores

(37) compilation of old tracks

(38) working with a vocalist

psn:

(39) creating a false artist identity

aaaah:

(40) a fucking gameboy plus brightly colored clothes and bad hair

logakght:

(41) trying to be aphex

kanakori:

(42) ambient track longer than 5 min w/ 'undecifrable' women vocals

(43) slow track shouting random fruit names

(44) acid

(45) claps (tururururu tu tu *clap clap* tururururu tu tu)

(46) snares

(47) hi hats

(48) wobling synthlines

tech diff:

(49) off-grid programming mess

(50) NI massive bass patch

(51) experimental noise performance

(52) evocative orchestral music

(53) music that misses the point, expresses nothing

(54) epic string/pad sections

(55) behind the scenes/making of video

gmanyo:

(56) rave music with 4:3 cross rhythms

mischjok:

(57) synth with 1 OSC sine wave

(58) repeating same idea ad nauseam

(59) have few beat patterns

(60) dirty recordings

(61) uploading everything

(62) nexus presets

(63) Deadmau5 kick

(64) talking bass

(65) FL studio 1st prest fruity delay bank

(66) dry drums

(67) no velocity on piano lines

(68) 3-note chords

(69) i VI iv i progression

kinski:

(70) electronic music

o00o:

(71) poor arrangement

(72) poor melody, harmonics

data:

(73) take an entire 80s tune, slow it down, it's now your material

Fart Chambers

Infinity

Akashic Field Theory

qubits

sharting in the cinema whilst watching Kingdom of Heaven.

just kidding

antidepressants

Should I speed up the schedule?

I could give it 1 or 2 days for the earlier matches and then a week for the semifinals and finals.

Most of these nominations suck.

Mike, the Headless Chicken - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Fat chicks

Dying the day before the release of Diablo III

  On 1/5/2012 at 7:24 PM, acid1 said:

Skrillex - Most IDM 2012

 

Because I want to hear its WATMM comp album mostly.

Fat chicks with dicks

  On 3/22/2012 at 7:11 PM, Root5 said:

Should I speed up the schedule?

I could give it 1 or 2 days for the earlier matches and then a week for the semifinals and finals.

Yeah I'd say. ALSO

Nanobots

Richard Nixon

Terraforming planets

farting into a blender and trying to blend the fart

  On 3/22/2012 at 8:12 PM, Cryptowen said:

Richard Nixon

people who thought the world was going to end

Vegeta's moustache

Homebrewing beer.

Okay, I shortened the tournament significantly. I agree that it's better this way. Thanks for the good suggestions.

  On 3/21/2012 at 5:11 PM, patternoverlap said:

ice water with ice

  On 3/23/2012 at 1:48 AM, dese manz hatin said:

  On 3/21/2012 at 5:11 PM, patternoverlap said:

ice water with ice

yes yes

gaarg tumblr

coats that look like coat linings

shaving your own taint before a tokyo washy washy massage

michelada cocktails

insomnia

edit: the art of yekking

Ulillillia

+1 to yekking, fuck yeah!