I'll answer that from another angle: the microtech/house field.
Check the new 2x12" by Villalobos (Achso), the Hrdvsion (on Wagon Repair), some of the Lee Van Dowski and the new Ho To Make Sense of a Window 12"s, which, while (some of them) remaining squarely in the tech traditions, openly wink at IDM.
Or how about the wild streak alias of Pub, Lucky & Easy? Not sure what you call them, but they are at least interesting.
What of radical mashup outfits like Cassette Boy or things on Toast & Jam?
Grime? Dubstep? Things on DMZ, etc. (there are a few labels, the names of which escape me right now, putting out less grimey, less dubstep oriented material that is closer to IDM - but as I'm not really into that stuff, I can't cough the names up easily). Not to suggest all of this is worthy fodder/this listy, but to suggest that some muddy idm tracks can be seen in their kitchens.
IDM isn't dead - it's cross pollinating the way the way the ambient genre has (and this has generated similar 'purist' camps and arguments on the ambient list as well). Even so, there is still some je ne sais quoi which can be argued over - and yet still heard - that retains. Let the music go where it will and become what it may. Nobody can stop it anyway. All we do is argue about what label to put on it.
quoted 6 lines So, can we get constructive and suggest some exciting electronic music that> So, can we get constructive and suggest some exciting electronic music that
> isn't 'the standard IDM sound'? I'll open the bidding at Skream, Black Dice,
> Exile and ?.
>
> David
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