IDM in 2001

a YouTube thread. Post only IDM that came out in 2001.

Is this the greatest year for IDM ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Y3piodWes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHt-Ql_TbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Rhyg5ce9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr-3NDyTbY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwtVJ6OFlR8

my personal fave from Kid606 and friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LieZVD4fDbA

or is this just the year i bought into a wack trend like 21-year-olds buy into chillwave today?

kid 606 track came out in like '99

in answer to yr second question, yes, but it wasn't even a trend by 2001

this stuff is mostly great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acHRwBHQfo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9i1skR2cwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITIyFE6uqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvso0hNJEo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJkWHvC7K5c

o wait, SWWNN is '02

No, it appeared on Total 3 in 2001, then was released on vinyl with a remix the following year. Don't know if it's really IDM though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWpcXxcQBxw

01' Dabrye track remixed in 02' by Prefuse but whatevs.

xp, yeah well I guess I've never really been informed of what constitutes "IDM" in the first place - rather than regarding it as proper genre itself, I've generally used it as a catchall for many of the various ever-splintering electronic genres & subgenres of the last decade or so. Apologies if any of this is miscategorized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhJl0Vlt9NU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtFLELHwKtk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-Dc3YS5MI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSEN1TMYdsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s50jAWtCdQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeDfJtggLwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTqf3Sta_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFlancxpH9M&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6P4YWua9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkvXcvb7rkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCU3FsO9NsE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVJbpLc9t7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdw-5EWwn3o

I love almost all of these.

Proto dubstep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPswDVG5whU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPc39FrB84

I wouldn't count Jurgen Pappe personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4jzMEDT6LU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZRDsX_78s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii5ENtGYo88

All the above taken from my 2001 album list. A great year for IDM indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoonfG7T4DU

The case is being made here that's for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGvZtjr32Fk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4D_1ochyus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRTbLmogS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnDI1evxlk

Here is some "melodic IDM" (how Geir) which briefly proliferated circa 2001 and was uncool about 5 minutes later, but I still love pretty much anything that sounds like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThKSnpec3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiobDqpf_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeS72cuCdbg

I know Tides came out in 2000, but can I mention Arovane? and how much he sucked?

Here is some "melodic IDM" (how Geir) which briefly proliferated circa 2001 and was uncool about 5 minutes later, but I still love pretty much anything that sounds like it:

I'd be curious as to whether Geir actually likes these tracks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1wMQ11bDI

What's up with these IDM vids featuring Doraemon?

God I <3 "Actionist Respoke"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDfBUzcJv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsglyLWPLfg

hmm static caravan released less stuff in '01 than i thought

Is this the greatest year for IDM ever?

Wasn't IDM totally over by 2001? I'd argue that the best year for IDM was was 1995, that's when these records came out

The Black Dog - Spanners
µ-ziq - In Pine Effect
Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Aphex Twin - Ventolin EP
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb
Autechre - Tri Repetae
Squarepusher - Conumber EP
The first 3 Plug EPs

Etc...

Also, stuff like Jürgen Paape, Richie Hawtin, or Monolake aren't IDM - minimal house/techno and dub techno are a different genre and have a different lineage.

or is this just the year i bought into a wack trend like 21-year-olds buy into chillwave today?

Yes.

IDM was first and foremost a British genre that started in the early-to-mid 90s and was pioneered by artists like Plaid/The Black Dog, Aphex Twin, µ-ziq, Autechre, and Squarepusher, and by labels like Warp and Rephlex. I can think of only few prominent, non-British acts that would count as "IDM" (Mouse on Mars being the most obvious one).

Though my two favourite IDM albums of all time are actually by a German acts:

http://www.tenseconds.com.au/images//default/images/127155.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kCEVnK2uiuE/R-DQ31USaXI/AAAAAAAAAGo/VBhEfdvCVEE/s320/Autoditacker.jpg

less talk more bleepbloop

Yeah, I think by 2001 the term "IDM" had gotten so broad that it basically meant "electronic music that isn't dance music and isn't strictly speaking ambient." Anything that was loosely "experimental electronic music" was being referred to as IDM.

and by that definition, 'IDM' was pretty great in 2001

tho by the more restrictive definition of warp+skam+fellow travellers stuff, 2001 was a late flowering before death

I feel like 2001 was a bit of a sea-change year for this kind of music. It was the last time British-style IDM felt relevent or interesting to me. After that, all the IDM people I knew moved on into post mille-plateux and micro-house stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJIQAVsjdkU

Brothomstates was a really slept on artist. Basically everything he put out was great. He managed to make standard IDM beat-wankery sound danceable (and not in the prog-jazz Squarepusher way).

or is this just the year i bought into a wack trend like 21-year-olds buy into chillwave today?

TS: Which genre name is worse, "Intelligent Dance Music" or Chillwave??

that's arguable but srsly get tae fuck w/ any suggestion that aphex et al were no better than chillwave

can someone just take mp3s all of these tracks and send them to me cuz i would like to listen to them on my stereo today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAX1A4B1nk

You could say that the North American understanding of IDM in 2001 was whatever was covered here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooves

someone make a youtube playlist out of these, thx

aww this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vQOKgQxsVs

i'd never heard that slicker remix of telefon tel aviv before. but fahrenheit fair enough came out in '01 and that's a fucking classic that still holds up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ2qEah8Fns

oops, meant to post the original album version of TTV (which was '01) - hopefully we can pretend, tho, b/c that slicker remix sounds pretty fucking great. My overall fave track of theirs will always be "My Week Beats Your Year."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFHqLG6d-VI

oh man, so many lush pads and pitched-up, glitched-out drums on this thread.

that lusine track is great (and new to me).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHs37qsUTJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SP_OE3qrbk

also i can't tell if all of these tracks are 2 - 10 minutes too long or if my 2010 attention span just can't handle it

as a mopey shut-in in 2001, it was a very exciting time to be on slsk

ilkae - pistachio island is good for short attention spans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxUwj7v5qc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYa5ahoGkU

i'm having fun looking up some of the lesser known musicians in this thread to see who's still out there making music (under the same monikor anyway)

I'm pretty sure I have HQ rips of all the stuff I posted (& a decent amount of the others as well) if some of you want to collaborate on putting together an actual comp. I don't want to be in charge of it, tho - as I still have yet to follow through on some of the stuff I was putting together for the "greatest hits" thread a month or so ago.

ilkae - pistachio island is good for short attention spans

seconding this

i love 'miniatures' like that in all types of music though, probably explains guided by voices being my favorite indie band and such

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTqf3Sta_I

ilkae - pistachio island is good for short attention spans

thanks, this is pretty dope. lots of analog synths, which make it sound more contemporary than most of the stuff in this thread.

yeah that marumari track is dope i posted it upthread

was tempted to make a companion 'IDM in 2010' thread but i haven't heard anything worth getting excited about this year. kind of a shame since there was a bunch of stuff i liked last year and i was all ready for some sort of revival

i thought idm in 2010 = brainfeeder and post-dubstep

yeah there's still dudes shitting out the derivative early 00s sounding stuff by the buckets last i checked, but not much new or exciting except when one of them stumbles into a cool pop crossover thing like the Bibio record last year

last weekend, i saw a vinyl copy of Lesser's Gearhound in the Music and Video Exchange which had been incrementally reduced from £18 all the way down to 30 pence. it's probably weird, but I often feel sad seeing a great album neglected like that.

i thought idm in 2010 = brainfeeder and post-dubstep

― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 18 October 2010 20:30 (Yesterday)

exactly what i was about to say.

So much bleary eyed old gear on here, reminds me of being burgled the first week of uni losing all my pre-18 CDs and going bananas at the vinyl exchange and pelican neck in manchester buying more records than i have in the last 5 years put together in the space of a few months

This stuff is definitely classic. Granted, my 2001 took place in 2004 - a temporal retardation caused by being 17 - that was a the pinnacle of music for someone still cautious towards straight up dance music, and believing the crazier/ more alien something sounded, the better it was. Also having a predisposition for really melodic music and unnecessarily complex rhythms helped.

It's vital that we get some of this in here, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3KNIe6FLgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knk7dVmx5M&feature=related

last weekend, i saw a vinyl copy of Lesser's Gearhound in the Music and Video Exchange which had been incrementally reduced from £18 all the way down to 30 pence. it's probably weird, but I often feel sad seeing a great album neglected like that.

it's the one thing I would have contributed to this thread, but there's nothing on youtube from it.

it is an astoundingly overlooked record. only came out on Matador UK, copies hard to find. it just didn't really get understood, people wanted to review it more in a dance/IDM context when in fact J grew up playing in Metallica cover bands and then got into abstract D&B sampling, so it's more of a pranked out ROCK record with psychotic production. I put it on about once a year and it sounds better every single time so I keep hoping its day will come

argh, no one's even blogged it, one of the best electronic records of the previous decade

can't recommend it enough, it's cheap now on amazon but this is precisely one of those records that's going to go from $0.01 to $50.00 the instant the second to last copy is gone

gearhound is awesome. totally didn't get it at the time but it really grew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-gAYgUYPhw&playnext=1&list=PL8368E813FA47CE6E&feature=results_video

there is a weird pathos around this stuff, probably arising out of the fact of some of these guys just quitting music altogether and a dubious kind of rose-tinted nostalgia for a pre-real life problems youth. i can't help but feel a fondness for it.

2 things. 1 - the golden years for IDM were long gone by 2001. 2 - That TTA album is fucking magical. I have spare copies on CD and Vinyl if anybody wants to swap for something.

plz enumerate some products of the glory days of idm

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Objets-Dart-9295/release/50897

http://www.discogs.com/As-One-Reflections/release/61003

http://www.discogs.com/B12-Electro-Soma/master/23673

http://www.discogs.com/Orbital-In-Sides/master/23336

http://www.discogs.com/Softballet-Forms/master/80098

http://www.discogs.com/Autocreation-Mettle/release/51568

IDM used to be a bit more broad than what it turned into by the time Matador were distributing Warp in the US. I could go on and on with this stuff but check the first link then track down everything those artists did between 93-96.

maybe I shouldn't comment here as I'm "part of the problem" (as a Matador alum from said 2001 era), but I always felt like that Germ guy (Tim Wright) was an unsung hero of the golden age, i.e. 1994/1995. His records were a big influence on what we (Matmos) were up to, but he doesn't get name checked in the same way the Warp crew do. So, if you're into the things linked on this thread and want to hear something that came before, seek these records out:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Germ

also, the Antony Manning "Islets in Pink Polypropylene" (Irdial) record is another one of The Platters That Matter as far as being inspired, ahead of its time, and still vital today. "Elastic Variations" all the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnNIy0k-TNs&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgO5UzRVBas

maybe I shouldn't comment here as I'm "part of the problem"

yes your presence here is abominable to me

this germ stuff is great though

love electro-soma

will listen to the other recommendations — i haven't even heard of most of them apart from orbital

also, the anthony manning album is free + legal: http://archive.org/details/ird054

some of these bring up issues of categorization — when does it become idm instead of techno, etc? seems like the main factors are time and place.

I don't know, 2001 was an amazing year for music in general across the board.

I dunno, I feel that "golden age of IDM" in this case is neither here nor there. The era and artists you're citing are sort of a different ilk. This kind of laptop period of Mego, Tigerbeat6, ~scape, the later Mille Plateaux releases, Leaf, Orthlorng Musork, and so on, strikes me as distinct. Certainly it opened onto a wider range of influences beyond 90s rave and chill-out contexts, but then over time it also shed the term IDM in the process...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a53-MX_nAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpxMsb5fqrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Vc5cB0Y8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSUv7UrhmM0

It's not on YouTube, but also Bjork - Crave (Odd Duck Mix feat. Matmos)

Also, does Blectum From Blechdom count here? I remember liking De Snaunted Haus, but haven't listened to any of this stuff for years. Time flies.

This album by Ruxpin, Midnight Drive (2000, Elektrolux) gets overlooked but I think people on this thread would love it. http://www.discogs.com/Ruxpin-Midnight-Drive/master/24158

there is a weird pathos around this stuff, probably arising out of the fact of some of these guys just quitting music altogether and a dubious kind of rose-tinted nostalgia for a pre-real life problems youth. i can't help but feel a fondness for it.

well said. also because of that retro-futurist vibe, where the music is so earnestly meant to be cutting edge but sounds clearly dated now (except for small percentage that sounds like it could have come out in 2012).

those marumari tracks sound great.

this fringey thread is home

I still play Phoenecia's 'Brownout' all the time. It's backloaded; the most amazing tracks are all in the second half, but it's where they surpassed all their influences in the sound design department, and it was also bizarrely accessible at the exact moment when so much of what was recognized as 'progressive' was getting identified with difficulty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jPkREQx6Q&feature=related

& the breakdown at 2:10 in this, so simple but I could listen to it forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0v6bxyexY

1 - the golden years for IDM were long gone by 2001.

I will never understand how this could be true. 2001 was THE year for IDM AFAIC, but also a kind of last burst for this music.

brownout on heavy rotation this past week. thanks for reminding me to dig it out again, it still rules.

not exactly idm and it's from '04, but i was alone in my obsession with this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUXVXrdmuVM

so obsessed that i made an homage to it:

http://chants.bandcamp.com/track/austerity

http://www.discogs.com/Nav-Katze-Never-Mind-The-Distortion/master/48912

further evidence that IDM peaked in the mid 90s and not 2001 etc.

haven't heard that in forever, love the afx mixes

This idea of IDM peaking at one point rather than another seems like asking for trouble. Clearly, there's the well-established narrative from Warp's Artificial Intelligence onwards with early µ-Ziq and Rephlex, Mille Plateaux, Vibert/Squarepusher/Aphex Twin. I just find the 2001 threshold more of an interesting point to reflect back on.

It's a little different as well in terms of the accessibility of laptops and basic software like Max/MSP. Seems like a more diverse group of influences and styles got brought into it. Could be wrong though.

it seems like there is a dichotomy b/w the acid gearhead side and the dsp/software side of it (not a strict division tho)

ilkae - pistachio island is good for short attention spans

― another al3x, Monday, October 18, 2010 2:21 PM (2 years ago)

otm, great album.
"Bring extra dragons" is great too.

can this be a general rad late 90s/early 2000s IDM thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27_Yb_AZRtQ

chris clark's album clarence park has been reissued and expanded (thirteen bonus tracks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSD6Ob9Q4nA

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