REALLY Boring poll (imho?)
and
bent crayon is NOT a mail order
only store.
thanks.
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From: Idm Poll <idmpoll@aphextwin.zzn.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: [idm] I.D.M. Poll Results !!!
Okay... A lot of answers in common, therefore a lot of ex-aequos, but
a lot of original answers too, maybe not enough to be shared by the
majority, but I believe that all in all, the tastes of the IDM list
members converged to give us this (ideal ?) discography. Here goes...
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BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF THE CENTURY
1. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
2. Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2
4. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
5. Autechre - Amber
6. Aphex Twin - ... I Care Because You Do
7. Bola - Soup
8. µ-Ziq - Bluff Limbo
9. Autechre - Chiastic Slide
10. Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel
11. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
12 ex-aequo. Orbital - In-Sides
12 ex-aequo. Reload - A Collection Of Short Stories
14 ex-aequo. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
14 ex-aequo. Kraftwerk - Computer World
14 ex-aequo. v/a - Artificial Intelligence (Warp)
17. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
18. The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities
19. Autechre - Tri Repetae
20. Black Dog - Bytes
Autechre - EP7 (if you consider it as an LP: ex-aequo w/ Bola - Soup)
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Closest Runners-up: Autechre - Incunabula
Global Communication - 76:14
The Black Dog - Temple of
Transparent Balls
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BEST ELECTRONIC E.P.'s OF THE CENTURY
1. Boards Of Canada - Hi Scores
2. Squarepusher - Big Loada
3. Autechre - Garbage
4. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
5. Autechre - Anti EP
6. Autechre - Anvil Vapre
7. Gescom - Key Nell
8. Future Sound Of London - Cascade
9. Bola - Bola 1
10 ex-aequo. Squarepusher - Port Rhombus
10 ex-aequo. Push Button Objects - Cash (sch003)
12. Autechre - Envane
13 ex-aequo. Downpour - Windstorms, Broken Microphones
13 ex-aequo. Gescom - E.P. 1 (ska002)
15. Richard Devine - (sch005)
Autechre - EP7 (if you consider it as an EP: Between Gescom - Key
Nell & Future Sound Of London - Cascade)
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Closest Runners-up: Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Future Sound Of London -
Lifeforms Paths 1-7
Note: Boards Of Canada were voted far far ahead of Squarepusher.
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BEST I.D.M. ALBUMS OF 2000
1. Savath + Savalas - Folk Songs For Trains, Trees and Honey
2. Amon Tobin - Supermodified
3. Speedy J - A Shocking Hobby
4. Arovane - Tides
5. Arovane - Atol Scrap
6 ex-aequo. L'Uomo - Vocal City
6 ex-aequo. Snd - Stdiosnd
8. Fizzarum - Monochrome Plural
9. Phonem - Hydro Electric
10 ex-aequo. Radiohead - Kid A
10 ex-aequo. v/a - Squadron
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BEST I.D.M. E.P.'s OF 2000
1. Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
2. Bola - Mauver
3. Pub - Summer pt. 1
4. Hrvatski - Raume 7"
5 ex-aequo. Prefuse 73 - Estrocaro
5 ex-aequo. Slicker - Remixes
5 ex-aequo. Uli Troyer - Nok
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Note: Unfortunately, not enough answers in common to make it a top 10.
Once again, Boards of Canada were voted way ahead of Bola.
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BEST I.D.M. LABELS
1. Warp
2. Rephlex
3. Skam
4. Schematic
5. Mille Plateaux
6. Morr Music
7. Plug Research
8. Basic Channel / Chain Reaction
9 ex-aequo. Mego
9 ex-aequo. Ninja Tune
11 ex-aequo. Chocolate Industries
11 ex-aequo. DeFocus
11 ex-aequo. Worm Interface
14. Isophlux
15. Musik Aus Strohm
16. Sonig
17. Tigerbeat6
18. R&S
19. Merck
20. Toytronic
21. Din
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06. Most underrated IDM artist (only one)
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Note: No answer in common !!...
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07. Most overrated IDM artist (only one)
1. Kid 606
2 ex-aequo. Mike Paradinas
3 ex-aequo. Moby
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08. Best IDM Internet radios (as many as you like)
1. Audionimbus
2. NortRoute
3. Inaudible
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Runners-up: Bleepbloop, Dublab, Groovetech...
Note: I would have loved to provide the URL's if only the voters had
sent them...
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09. Favourite IDM record stores (as many as you like - please mention
City and Country for each)
1. Other Music, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2. Forced Exposure, Somerville, MA, U.S.A. (mail-order only)
3 ex-aequo. Bent crayon, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A. (mail-order only)
3 ex-aequo. Mondo Kim's Video, New York, NY, U.S.A.
3 ex-aequo. s://kimo - Ellicott City, MD, U.S.A. (mail-order only)
6. Sister Ray, London, U.K.
7 ex-aequo. Ambient Soho, London, U.K.
7 ex-aequo. Hardwax, Berlin, Germany
7 ex-aequo. Pelicanneck, Manchester, U.K.
7 ex-aequo. Select-A-Disc, London, U.K.
7 ex-aequo. Stereophonic Records, Antwerp, Belgium
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Okay, I understand that not everybody lives in the U.S. or the U.K.
but most people gave me names of shops from all over the world,
therefore this list reflects probably well enough the places you
should stop by when on vacation. :-)
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10. Best IDM live act (only one)
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Note: Autechre win hands down given that all the other votes were
never in agreement with anyone else's...
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11. Best IDM D.J. (only one)
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Note: Once again, no answer in common, but most were part of Rephlex
(think Aphex Twin, Mike Dred, Grant Wilson-Claridge, ... )
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CONCLUSION:
I wish more people had participated even though it took me forever to
come up with these results... too bad...
Oh well... maybe next year...
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