Album Rating: 5.0

when lava pours out near the sea surface, tremendous volcanic explosions sometimes occur

Album Rating: 4.0

Geode daddy

Album Rating: 3.5

Just to be clear: I could have omitted 'this type of' from that sentence and it would still have been true. IDM is not for me!



Oooops, I guess that is true octagon!!

Album Rating: 5.0

"the only good good kind of idm doesn't do anything for him at all folks"



LMAO

Honestly Boc deserves better than that genre association

Album Rating: 5.0

you're really not a fan of Monolake-style icy minimal IDM pots?

yall remember Salad Fingers?

Album Rating: 5.0

in my head-cannon IDM doesn't mean intelligent dance music, it's just 3 letters as jazz is 4 letters (unless I'm in the dark about the nomenclature of jazz music)

Album Rating: 3.5

Same Avagantamoss, and would you say Monolake is IDM? Then I do like it because Monolake is 🤤

Album Rating: 5.0

I'd say Monolake's main genre is minimal techno, but ever since Cinemascope more and more IDM elements have been added to their sound (Polygon Cities being an exception)

Monolake doesn't do much for me no. There have been a couple tracks tho

Album Rating: 3.5

""IDM" is such a terrible genre descriptor I really wish it were replaced had it not been so ingrained in music culture already"



Super mega hard agree.

Album Rating: 4.3

ngl I could jam the best 4 from this in alternation with the best 4 from Cinemascope and hardly complain about any style or quality mismatching

Album Rating: 3.5

Monolake has this bigger emphasis on a techno feel that I find to die for though. I guess I have to go back to this and see whether I agree because I'm not sure if I remember this enough to comment on that level haha!

Album Rating: 5.0

monolake is like the epitome dub techno, not really an idm ambassador

Album Rating: 3.5

That's what I felt. Really not too sure any more on what IDM exactly entails anyway.



Wikipedia is equally vague about it:

"Intelligent dance music (commonly abbreviated as IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, regarded as "cerebral" and better suited to home listening than dancing. Emerging from electronic and rave music styles such as techno, acid house, ambient music, and breakbeat, IDM tended to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than adhering to characteristics associated with specific genres. Prominent artists associated with the genre include Aphex Twin, μ-Ziq, the Black Dog, the Orb, the Future Sound of London, Autechre, Luke Vibert, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, and Boards of Canada."



For what it's worth: apart from The Orb and some μ-Ziq, I do not particularly care for any of these names.

Album Rating: 5.0

'home listening' will never fail to make me simultaneously want to laugh and die

Album Rating: 5.0

i could take or leave basically all IDM besides these guys

"idm" was just a buzzword coined by some shitty blogger to describe the genre that was then known as "ambient techno". It's unfortunate that at this point it has been largely adopted as a real genre to the point that you kind of just have to accept it. Let's not let that happen with "edm".

Album Rating: 4.5

too late