Shred Room III

They're very much inspired by Aphex Twin and they're even better.  They have some ambient tracks, but their music as a whole predominantly IDM, with the ambient tracks helping further their albums' cohesiveness.

Just spent six hours fighting with a Trojan. I seem to have won.

Henry Plainview wrote: Pnoom! wrote: Re IDM, I will answer for Stoney: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children I thought they were more ambient.  James, everything has to be on the internet, otherwise the system falls apart.

IDM as a name is stupid and unhelpful. I'd rather just call Aphex Twin "drill/drum 'n' bass."

I can easily recommend BT's "This Binary Universe" as a/the quintessential IDM album, though. It's in my top 10 albums for sure. Longish songs, all very good, nice ambient/drum 'n' bass mix, proggy time sigs (though how far that is unique in DnB is unknown...)

Henry Plainview wrote: Pnoom! wrote: They're very much inspired by Aphex Twin and they're even better.  They have some ambient tracks, but their music as a whole predominantly IDM, with the ambient tracks helping further their albums' cohesiveness. Is Aquarius representative? Because it's far too repetitive for me. So Is Turquoise Hexagon. And Eagle in Your Mind. That is too bad because I liked it otherwise.

The tough thing is that most ambient artists (Schulze, BoC, all post-rock/ambient artists basically) develop about one theme per song. It's really better to look at it as one particular soundscape, because they seem to be fragments or ideas repeated to let the idea sink in. With BoC, though, the ideas are really f**king good, so the repitition is good or at least hardly noticable for me.

Listening to Univers Zero

Yeah its good, just not what I'm used to.

1313

I will win I'm done with this album. It's gonna be crazy.

See ya later. I too should go, I have things to do.

TGM: Orb wrote:

Hm, I keep feeling that I've maybe gone as far as I want to go with 'prog' at the moment. Still getting into interesting, creative and 'progressive' music, but I'm not a huge fan of squeaky abstract avant stuff, and I'm having trouble finding guitar-keys-drum-bass epics that manage to square up to the writing standards I get from the classic stuff. Suppose I should check out more modern stuff, but so far I just haven't really heard that much of it I really get a kick out of.

That, and I'm getting more interested in classical and pop (yeah, don't care, pop's awesome ) at the moment.

So, yeah, sure I'll be returning to the moar-prog-must-have-fold at some point, but I've got other priorities. Except RPI. That's long overdue. And Hammilldergraafgenerator are still pretty cool.
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I recommend Swiss band Memoriance.  You'd enjoy their music.  Guitar, bass, drums and keys.

Also, not all avant-prog is squeaky and abstract.


Edited by James - February 19 2009 at 09:41

Handbrake or Mac The Ripper, but then you'll need to extract the audio using a program like FCP, Cubase, Nuendo, but I'm sure there's some freeware that can strip audio.