Come on then.  Let's do this.

I am happy to organise the brackets and run the polls.  If there is appetite for a compilation / theme of tracks afterwards then I will let someone on take on that task....

As for now, NOMINATIONS OPEN UNTIL SUNDAY 22ND MARCH 8pm GMT

GO

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2018 saw the 11th most IDM competition claimed by "Hiding the fact that you automated your own job"

As far as I am aware, there was no compilation created to honour this.  Past winners can be found elsewhere on this site I am sure. The search function now works!

buying a moog for 50 squid

Brexit beating Monolith's "out before Brexit" album 

  On 3/2/2020 at 1:21 PM, Soloman Tump said:

If there is appetite for a compilation / theme of tracks afterwards then I will let someone on take on that task....

this is where automation winning in 2018 ended, no automation album 

I nominate:

dustbin-core

avoiding eye contact

mozex

Fashionable face masks (and questioning whether they are actually FFP rated...)

idm is a shit word and you know it

Failing to automate your job

failing to die from covid-19

sadwanking furiously (with headphones)

having a midlife crisis

online dating

parameter set handouts

pizza

pineapple on pizza

pizza on pineapple

printing out the dank memes thread in color and putting it in a 3 ring binder labeled "Vol. 1"

collecting all the images from WATMM and putting them back to back in a 27 hour imovie NTS session and making it transition between photos w/ken burns effect and using the stock included imovie jingles as the score

making an ambient record w/o delay or reverb

forming a duo of harmonica and accordion played live through max patches

creating a game for mobile devices that is group play hacky sack

visiting portland and not going to any of the synth shops because you haven't bought new gear in 7 years.

being jaded as fuck

getting a t-shirt w/the hamburger emoji on it

washing your hands before and after using the toilet

keeping your problems to yourself and not complaining

- Triplet vocal rhythms with highly affected 'urban' vowel sounds.

- Using the 'Chop snare' on every track.

Windows 95

feeling good when the MOST IDM 2020 thread starts getting some traction

Hacking your arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into your synth.

Hacking your arm off to acquire a prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into your synth.

Telling a possum to fuck off and it just glares at you. 

  On 3/3/2020 at 4:43 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Hacking your arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into your synth.

 

 

Hacking your arm off to acquire a prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into your synth.

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Ding ding ding

Winner

Writing an algorithm that writes different algorithms which create music.

  On 3/3/2020 at 7:38 AM, goDel said:

Writing an algorithm that writes different algorithms which create music.

Nah, that’s social activism 

taking a week off to make sure you're right. 

during a job interview handing a print out of the autechre AAA instead of a resume' to the person interviewing you

getting a vasectomy at 15

  On 3/3/2020 at 4:43 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Hacking your arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into your synth.

 

 

Hacking your arm off to acquire a prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into your synth.

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Hacking your synth so it controls your arm.

Plugging the corona virus into your computer to hear what it sounds like.

  On 3/3/2020 at 1:11 AM, ignatius said:

making an ambient record w/o delay or reverb

Actually a good idea. Do such records exist?

  On 3/3/2020 at 8:23 AM, darreichungsform said:

Actually a good idea. Do such records exist?

Field recordings?