IDM

Popular IDM in the last year.

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EP • Nov 19 / 2024
IDM
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Album • Sep 13 / 2024
Tech House IDM
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Sam Shepherd’s not-quite-techno is the 21st-century equivalent of good progressive rock or jazz fusion: sophisticated, intelligent music whose outward sense of exploration mirrors an almost psychedelic journey within. Inspired by his teenage epiphanies with techno in Manchester in the late ’90s and early 2000s, *Cascade* is easily his most immediate album: “club bangers” (“Key103”), acid bass (“Afflecks Palace”), even a little Giorgio Moroder-style Eurodisco for good historical measure (“Birth4000”). The beats are nakedly 4/4 and the surrounding ambience the kind of moody, infinitely cascading synth tapestries you might find on a psytrance mix, rendered with a grace that makes them feel paradoxically subtle. Having done complicated, Shepherd makes it simple.

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Album • Jun 17 / 2024
IDM Ambient Techno
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Album • Dec 17 / 2024
IDM Acid Breaks Acid Techno
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Album • Apr 04 / 2025
IDM Ambient Techno
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Album • Apr 25 / 2025
IDM
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The Oxford-based musician was a virtuoso DJ before he became a producer, pulling off risky transitions of genre and tempo in vinyl-only sets known to flit from hip-hop to drum ’n’ bass to free jazz. Before that, though, the artist born Felix Manuel was something of a child prodigy as a pianist and harpist. On *Under Tangled Silence*, the first Djrum full-length since 2018’s *Portrait with Firewood*, Manuel’s talents as an instrumentalist (piano, harp, and percussion) are foregrounded as much as his electronic production. On “A Tune for Us,” cascading piano gradually gives way to jungle breaks; elsewhere, heady acid house and futuristic dancehall wash up against a blissful, piano-guided ambient meditation. Manuel began the record during the pandemic lockdowns, then rebuilt it from scratch after a catastrophic hard-drive meltdown; the result is a striking, holistic portrait of an artist fully inhabiting himself.

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EP • Nov 22 / 2024
IDM UK Bass
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Album • Jun 14 / 2024
IDM Ambient Techno
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Album • Sep 06 / 2024
Ambient Techno IDM
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Album • Jul 05 / 2024
Ambient IDM
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Album • Dec 06 / 2024
UK Bass IDM Deconstructed Club
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Album • Sep 20 / 2024
IDM Glitch
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Album • Feb 14 / 2025
Indietronica IDM
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Album • Jul 05 / 2024
Breakcore IDM
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EP • May 17 / 2024
IDM Ambient Techno
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Album • Oct 04 / 2024
Ambient Techno IDM
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Album • Jan 17 / 2025
IDM Downtempo
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EP • Feb 07 / 2025
IDM Progressive Electronic Post-Industrial
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EP • Nov 15 / 2024
Data Sonification Sound Art IDM
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Album • Sep 06 / 2024
IDM Glitch
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Album • Jan 31 / 2025
IDM
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Album • May 17 / 2024
IDM
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Album • Feb 07 / 2025
Ambient IDM
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LDS
Album • Apr 18 / 2025
IDM Minimal Techno
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Album • May 30 / 2024
IDM UK Bass
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EP • May 16 / 2024
IDM
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EP • Jul 05 / 2024
IDM Ambient Techno Dub Techno
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Album • Feb 14 / 2025
IDM Electronic
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Album • Sep 01 / 2024
Glitch Pop Experimental IDM
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EP • Jul 10 / 2024
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