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Hello, all. I've been lurking a bit, and I've decided to get my feet wet with this question. Just ignore me if this is a worn-out thread, though. I'm doing a night of IDM called Think Tank at a club called Ikon in Tulsa... I'm using the term IDM as a very large umbrella to encompass a variety of styles of electronic music which I find interesting and appealling, in an intellectual sense as well as in a physical, beat-oriented sense. That means, my partner and I are playing stuff from Scorn and Lassigue Benthaus (sp?) as well as Autechre and Aphex Twin, Kid Spatula, Fluke, FSOL; some goa stuff like Man With No Name and Juno Reactor as well as things like Salt Tank and Single Cell Orchestra. I feel like we're off to a very good start. Now, the question: I think you can kind of see where we're headed, with the groups I've mentioned. What releases would you consider to be "essential" in -any- IDM record collection? Thanks...

quoted 3 lines Now, the question: I think you can kind of see where we're headed, with the

>Now, the question: I think you can kind of see where we're headed, with the >groups I've mentioned. What releases would you consider to be "essential" >in -any- IDM record collection?

The "essential" issue comes up every so often. The results of a fairly old poll on the subject are available somewhere in the vicinity of http://hyperreal.com/music/lists/idm/, and a more recent one is available in the list archives for last February (dunno why it never hit the web). C. -- C.Hilker (cspot@hyperreal.com) "He was mesmerized by the light-pictures, and the music sent him right into dreamland"

OOPS, I goofed and sent that last note before I was finished. DAMNED TECHNOLOGY! Here's my list (again). Sorry for the double-post......... Cabaret Voltaire - "The Conversation", "International Language" Clock DVA - "Man-Amplfied", "Sign", "Bitstream" (single), "Voice Recognition Test" (single) Coil - "The Snow EP" Download - "Sidewinder" (ep), "Microscopic" (ep), "The Eyes of Stanley Pain" Front Line Assembly - "Provision" (single), "Caustic Grip", "Virus" (single), "Mindphaser" (single), "The Blade" (single), "Tactical Neural Implant", "Millennium" (single), "Circuitry" (single), "Plasticity" (single) Front 242 - "Tyranny For You" (just for "Moldavia" & "Trigger 2") Future Sound of London - "Accelerator", "Dead Cities", "Papua New Guinea" (single) Intermix - "Intermix", "Phaze Two" Noise Unit - "Strategy of Violence", "Drill" Scorn - "Evanescence", "Ellipsis" Skinny Puppy - "Addiction" (single), "Testure" (single), "Tormentor" (single), "Spasmolytic" (single), "Too Dark Park", "Inquisition" (single), "The Process" Test Dept - "Pax Americana" (single), "Bang on It!" (single), "Totality 1" (single), "Totality" Dennis O'Hare noise@webtv.net