Any scene for New/Edgy/Current IDM Artists?

There's loads of great electronic music right now but I've always had the firm belief that all genres of music only has 10% great stuff. So if you want IDM and you know Warp/Rephlex/Skam then you don't need to go to much further off the map. But it's always interesting to see what you can find.

Then again maybe I have a slight hangover, feeling a bit glum and need some fresh air. Sifting through the silt and finding those hidden gems is what it's all about.

Panning for sonic gold.

There's also this guy, who just about knocks the socks off of a lot of venetian snares records

Thread's a slippery slope of Scotsmen opinions..

What's IDM anyway?

That's a great modern dubstep EP. Although, you were specifically instructed to:

  On 6/14/2015 at 10:03 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

don't listen to anybody who says that 'idm influenced dubstep' is somehow more forward thinking than people trying to break new ground inside of the context of idm.

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:51 PM, PhylumZunami said:

There's also this guy, who just about knocks the socks off of a lot of venetian snares records

 

listened to that album for the first time yesterday. I found it a bit samey, maybe i wasnt in the right mood. ill give it another go now you've mentioned it.

Mark my words: In the future IDM will rise again. Maybe when all this robot and A.I. stuff starts to take off.

On topic, there's often cool stuff being shared in chatmm: DJ Mixes, releases, remix competitions, live shows, experiments and compilations. There are some very talented artists in there too that work on new stuff frequently. My favourite album of 2014 came from a chatmm user. It's pretty much my go-to place for feeling the pulse of whats out there.

  On 6/20/2015 at 7:01 PM, autopilot said:

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:47 PM, PhylumZunami said:

this is some current cutting EDGE idm. seems some of you aren't aware how much progression has been made over the years:

 

 

 

That's a great modern dubstep EP. Although, you were specifically instructed to:

 

  On 6/14/2015 at 10:03 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

don't listen to anybody who says that 'idm influenced dubstep' is somehow more forward thinking than people trying to break new ground inside of the context of idm.

 

 

it shares elements of dub step, yes, but that doesn't make it a dub step EP. this album is totally ground breaking imo. The amount of sound design and variation in rhythms is astonishing. the rest of the album is great too.

  On 6/21/2015 at 5:34 AM, Lewps said:

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:51 PM, PhylumZunami said:

There's also this guy, who just about knocks the socks off of a lot of venetian snares records

 

listened to that album for the first time yesterday. I found it a bit samey, maybe i wasnt in the right mood. ill give it another go now you've mentioned it.

 

its p samey to be honest, but its grade A primo break chopping and programming. I could do without a lot of the orchestral elements, but this guy has a serious taste for rhythm unlike a lot of breaks producers that want imitate venetian snares.

  On 6/21/2015 at 5:22 PM, PhylumZunami said:

it shares elements of dub step, yes, but that doesn't make it a dub step EP. this album is totally ground breaking imo. The amount of sound design and variation in rhythms is astonishing. the rest of the album is great too.

 

It's definitely a great EP. It is also very much an idm-influenced dubstep EP. It's pretty undeniable to anyone who's thoroughly familiar with the genre.

Personally I've heard plenty of dnb & dubstep in the last half a decade that have continued the ethos of fresh sound design & lush melodics from classic IDM but actually put the "D" back into the acronym by recontextualizing it as something that actually makes people want to dance.

That's not to say that IDM is dead or that some totally alienating and challenging music can't be good fun for a connoisseur, but as a musician I'm way more impressed when someone can take the aesthetic in a direction that's relatable & danceable (while still alien/psychedelic), because, from experience, I know that takes way more finesse & skill than just making incoherent sonic chaos & declaring it art.

Also you have the dance music/bass music scene to thank for these heady "IDM" jams:

I feel like the best IDM was made by people who weren't trying to make IDM

also this is pretty great, not straight up IDM, more industrial

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:47 PM, PhylumZunami said:

i had a feeling this thread would be 80 percent bullshit posts.

 

this is some current cutting EDGE idm. seems some of you aren't aware how much progression has been made over the years:

 

 

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:31 PM, zkreso said:

I think techno is almost as good as IDM these days.

 

great but this isn't a thread for good techno.

 

 

  On 6/16/2015 at 5:12 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

its kind of a tragedy that a thread asking for cutting edge/current IDM is half filled with posts about OPN

 

 

this was expected tbh

 

also Grischa is great! Love him

Why do you sound so pretentious?

stop being reductive. your recommendations aren't any better than the last.

Plenty of good shit out there. I always keen an eye on Tympanik, n5MD, Schematic.

I think one of the best modern artists who is often totally overlooked is Access To Arasaka. Highly recommended for fans of stuff like Gridlock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXF1SVsw-jE

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:22 PM, beerwolf said:

Maybe the problem is that the best IDM is, thought with a few exceptions, all mainly on Warp/Rephlex/Skam and all well known. There is no other holy grail to find.

that's absurdly inaccurate look at labels like Phthalo, Isolate and Schematic (again),

Wanna echo the techno / bass recommendations earlier. Some of my favorite tracks past year:

Hexagon:

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/hexagon-blue-hour-ep/510177-01/

Blawan

ASC

Joane Skyler

https://boomkat.com/vinyl/943870-joane-skyler-sssssssss

Tri Angle records

Klaus (ambient variety)

oberman knocks - beatcroff slabs album (MUST!)

  On 6/22/2015 at 3:05 AM, nature said:

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:47 PM, PhylumZunami said:

i had a feeling this thread would be 80 percent bullshit posts.

 

this is some current cutting EDGE idm. seems some of you aren't aware how much progression has been made over the years:

 

 

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:31 PM, zkreso said:

I think techno is almost as good as IDM these days.

 

great but this isn't a thread for good techno.

 

 

  On 6/16/2015 at 5:12 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

its kind of a tragedy that a thread asking for cutting edge/current IDM is half filled with posts about OPN

 

 

this was expected tbh

 

also Grischa is great! Love him

Why do you sound so pretentious?

 

i think honestly if i was the original poster i'd be pretty frustrated at the weird and defensive poor knowledge of the lot of the users on what is supposed to be an IDM forum, i can give the poster a little bit of a pass for having this attitude since it's a lot more admirable to be very aggressive about searchibng out edgy/cutting edge IDM than it is to say 'idm is dead' 'everything has already been done' 'only good idm was on warp and skam' and 'idm elements in dancey music are more interesting than actual attempts at cutting edge music' those attitudes are far more irritating than a tiny bit of pretentious frustration that comes from a very idealistic mind-set. This question was readily asked on this forum during the era when Planet-Mu was king and shifted away from IDM 'where has all the good idm gone?' and people were very receptive to the discussion, now people here unfortunately have absorbed the stockholm syndrome of marketing hype PR and now actually believe what made the genre special is no longer special anymore and therefore actually dead.

the laptop nerd image to danceclub bro approach that Machinedrum did is extremely transparent in its silliness, lets not forget where we all came from too

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:47 PM, PhylumZunami said:

i had a feeling this thread would be 80 percent bullshit posts.

 

this is some current cutting EDGE idm. seems some of you aren't aware how much progression has been made over the years:

 

Pretty cool. Like slower tempo Xanopticon with some Jega bits.

Never been a big fan of idm as a name but thats a different point but I also dont really think of it as a true genre. . Its more a place holder for forward thinking electronic music.. so just maybe part of the problem is the kinda people in this thread who say thats not idm cause its got a bit of a dubstep vibe or its to dancey. listening to afx dump its pretty clear he started of just

making rave tunes & chill out after rave tunes.. and if he had never took on a jungle influence would never have done the drill and bass style stuff

So guess my point is people shouldn't be restricted by what they think of as true idm cause that way just leads to dead ends

Plus I think a lot of people who set out to make "IDM" seem to focus the most on the aesthetic dead ends that killed it in the first place.

The 'chre knows they're really making hip hop in the form of audio wild style graffiti, which is much cooler than a cockblocking autistic robot getting into a semantic argument about coding and Game of Thrones while you're getting a bj

  On 6/25/2015 at 2:58 AM, Candiru said:

Plus I think a lot of people who set out to make "IDM" seem to focus the most on the aesthetic dead ends that killed it in the first place.

 

The 'chre knows they're really making hip hop in the form of audio wild style graffiti, which is much cooler than a cockblocking autistic robot getting into a semantic argument about coding and Game of Thrones while you're getting a bj

Aye good point Ae have always said they still think of what they do as electro/hip-hop.

Having said that though "cockblocking autistic robot getting into a semantic argument about coding and Game of Thrones while you're getting a bj" sounds fucking cool to me!

I think it should be about the music, what does one like or not like. Artists like Blawan are primarily in techno, but that doesn't stop him from releasing completely abstract ep's with no 4/4 beat. As a fan of the original IDM, I figured people might like a lot of techno and bass artists cool sound design, which can be crunchy, industrial, dark, very abstract (tri angle records), etc. Sometimes a good groove with just cool 'idm elements' breaking up the beat can be really cool to listen to as well

Leisure system is a pretty cool label got the berghain thing going on, but done with maximum idms

latest is pretty good

also, some oldies

Yeah man, Ganzfeld is a tune. Possibly my favourite non-AFX thing of last year.

  On 6/22/2015 at 3:05 AM, nature said:

 

  On 6/20/2015 at 2:47 PM, PhylumZunami said:

 

  On 6/16/2015 at 5:12 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

its kind of a tragedy that a thread asking for cutting edge/current IDM is half filled with posts about OPN

 

 

this was expected tbh

 

also Grischa is great! Love him

Why do you sound so pretentious?

 

for starters, I've only been listening to IDM and the likes for two or so years, so i missed the train and am essentially left with the extremely popular old records as well as new stuff from the big names because finding new artists is hard thanks to the popularity of IDM decreasing over the years. I started this thread for "New/Edgy/Current IDM artists" not techno or dub step. instead, the thread gets derailed by some random "debate" over whether this other guy who doesn't fit the threads description has good music or not. I don't mean to sound pretentious but i mean come on. its a forum dedicated to the likes of Autechre and Aphex Twin and this is the best we can come up with?

  On 6/25/2015 at 1:40 PM, lala said:

Leisure system is a pretty cool label got the berghain thing going on, but done with maximum idms

 

latest is pretty good

 

 

 

 

also, some oldies

 

 

NICE

loving the Rob Clouth, who is also the genius behind the artist Vaetxh i posted earlier in the thread.

that ganzfeld is also very mesmerizing!