Forgotten IDM producers

As we all know, IDM isn't what it used to be. Sometime after the turn of the century the popularity of the genre died in the arse. But for a few years there it was really blossoming in terms of quality and quantity of music being released. In this rush, it was easy to miss some great releases.

Everyone (well, everyone here!) knows about the big names. Hell, most here probably even know about highly celebrated but lesser known artists like Bola, Arovane, Gridlock, Brothomstates etc.

But I'm sure there's plenty of great music in this vein that was missed. Let's share some lesser known tracks/artists that deserve more recognition:

E.O.G from the Netherlands released a handful of EPs and compilation tracks. Overall the quality is very high

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ub6NV8VEJw

Low Key Operations is a guy I probably only know about because I'm Australian and he's a local. But he released an absolutely killer album of dark crunchy bassy electronica in the late 90's. I still listen to it to this day.

http://soundcloud.com/low-key-operations/low-key-operations-corrugated-scent

Yasume only released a single quite beautiful EP. Think delicate glitchy melodic IDM. Twin Peaks references certainly don't hurt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_SdCPLOkP4

Everybody share some of their favourites. I'm sure there's plenty of great stuff over the years that I've missed.

Infinite Scale who used to be on Toytronic put out his whole first tape on SoundCloud recently for free plus some other stuff. 1997, classic era.

http://soundcloud.com/infinitescale/accolade

http://soundcloud.com/infinitescale/ecoshock

http://soundcloud.com/infinitescale/lubricate

http://soundcloud.com/infinitescale/fusion

Jake Mandell made some great tracks. I think seem to recall he ended up going into the neuroscience field...

Also, Vendor Refill!

digitonal

Loess

err, i forgot.

Proem

Cell

Proswell

Ilkae

Marumari

+one didn't release much back in the early 2000's, but for me it was all top quality.

Pub is still very active, but here's a reminder anyway of one his earlier epic tracks..

  On 11/28/2012 at 4:31 PM, magdog said:

Pub is still very active, but here's a reminder anyway of one his earlier epic tracks..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSGHu_VGLA8

That sound design is kinda similar to the sound design in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, especially on the Moon and other places where they play ambient kind of music. [in the first two minutes]

  On 11/28/2012 at 7:27 AM, Poiman said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ub6NV8VEJw

Not really the music I normally listen to, and especially when I read 'nummer een' and 'The Netherlands' I thought they'd suck, but I think I'm gonna listen to it later this day and maybe even find some inspiration for a new track.

Lee Norris put out some fine releases...

and finally..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PzqVPrKZyk

  On 11/28/2012 at 5:02 PM, magdog said:

Lee Norris put out some fine releases...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMd5aXjtkg

Two I'd love to hear more from:

Lexaunculpt -

Plone -

Had to drop this one.. it's so lovely good!

Aphex Twin

Oh man! There is one lost producer I cant remember:

name: Mr.xxiixx (Or something liek that??)

Released: something "vol.1" and "vol.2" maybe a year after that.

I really loved all of this.

I was at my parents house and recently found a CD of Beak (Fred McGriff from watmm old days) and Kid Spatula!

it made me think of all the 2001-2004 electronic tracks I forgot about

We™

  On 11/28/2012 at 6:16 PM, colunga said:

Oh man! There is one lost producer I cant remember:

 

name: Mr.xxiixx (Or something liek that??)

Released: something "vol.1" and "vol.2" maybe a year after that.

 

mr. 76ix

Marumari

X-asp

Not Breathing

Emergency Broadcast Network

Carbon Based Lifeforms

Higher Intelligence Agency

Luke Slater

  On 11/28/2012 at 3:26 PM, patternoverlap said:

Marumari

ya, supermogadon is great.

Datach'i

Freeform

Funkstörung

Push Button Objects

Funk and PBO did collabs with bigger hip hop names though. I listened to Funkstörung a lot during high school. They're without a doubt my favorite German artists. They've even done collabs with Björk and Wu Tang Clan in 1999.

multiplex

lackluster

CiM

  On 11/28/2012 at 7:56 PM, chaosmachine said:

  On 11/28/2012 at 3:26 PM, patternoverlap said:

Marumari

 

ya, supermogadon is great.

You should check out his self-released EP, Path Scrubber...

  On 11/28/2012 at 8:29 PM, sergeantk said:

multiplex

lackluster

CiM

Yeah, whatever happened to CiM - I loved his releases (still do)