here's a more specifically IDM list, kinda, of my favs from the past
couple years:
2003
V/A - Double Down [merck]
V/A - Six Records Breaks Your Heart Again [six records]
Adam Johnson - Chigliak
Autechre - Draft 7.30 [warp]
Blamstrain - Ensi [merck]
Deru - Pushing Air [neo ouija]
Electric Company - It's Hard To Be A Baby [tigerbeat 6]
Esem - Serial Human [merck]
Jimi Tenor - Higher Planes [kitty-yo]
Lowfish - 1000 Corrections Per Second [suction]
Panjabi MC - The Album
Plaid - Spokes [warp]
Proswell - Carrot Dossier [merck]
Quench - Dyn [u-cover] and Punctuated [n5md]
Secede - Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic [merck]
2004
V/A - Everything Is Green [toytronic]
V/A - The Mafia Rip Bin [n5md] <- FREE!
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Deceptikon - Lost Subject [merck]
Deru - Trying To Remember [merck]
Erast - Goodair + Minimissing [laboratory instinct]
Helios - Unomia [merck]
Jimi Tenor - Beyond the Stars [kitty-yo]
L'usine - Serial Hodgepodge [ghostly international]
ml - [stuff on n5md, piehead, enpeg]
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Mr. Projectile - Sinking [merck]
o9 - Church Of The Ghetto P.C. [schematic]
Proem - [lots of stuff on merck, n5md, coredump, enpeg...]
Ratatat - Ratatat [xl]
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Secret Frequency Crew - Forest Of The Echo Downs [schematic]
Syndrone - Salmataxia [merck]
Vesna - Snow Sences [n5md]
2005
Solvent - Elevators & Oscillators [ghostly international]
Malcom Kipe - Breakspiracy Theories [merck]
M.I.A. - Arular [xl]
...and I suppose that Autechre album, too.
...and the AFX Analords. No one mention them yet? Shame.
...also check out enpeg records (enpeg.com), especially Renku,
Underscore, cheju, polar, Phaeon, Headphone Science, Fell...
-Adam Piontek
damek.org
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