The 10 Best IDM Albums

Born of primitive file sharing clients, a small group of labels in Europe and the unfortunate name of an early list serve, IDM or intelligent dance music was the sound of the future in the early ‘90s. Here are the 10 best IDM albums.

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The 10 Best IDM Albums

[theniteowl]

and radiohead was never the same since

[matheuss]

It missed Plaid, U-ziq, Telefon Tel Aviv, Wisp, Mrs. Jynx, Kettel... But there are just so many it's difficult to pick every single one and pack them all in a single top 10 list.

[romainlebris]

Don't forget The Future Sound of London's Lifeforms and Dead Cities

[TheAmbientzero]

The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms - 1994
Proem - Socially Inept - 2004
Loess - Burrows - 2009
The Flashbulb - Hardscrabble - 2012

[neurontechno]

my all time favorite is Incunabula from Autechre, and I still think is one of the most complete and pure IDM albums ever made.

[Bwethhh]

Selected Ambient Works is an absolute masterpiece but I think Drukqs should have also been on there

[alejandrosandoval]

Glad to see Jan Jelinek here, I wasn't expecting him at all

[mcalnd]

Having 3 artists appear twice in a top 10 list shows a huge shortfall in misunderstanding of this music. You don't need a top 10, just 10 of the best will surfice

[regularjon]

In the UK we just call everything 'dance'.

[Space-Holiday]

Boards Of Canada unsettles me like no other music. So damn haunting...

[Ludamage]

Top10 overall IDM? More like The 10 Best WARP IDM Albums ))

[locksh]

No Telefon Tel Aviv? Fahrenheit Fair Enough is one of the most important and utterly original things to arise in the IDM scene

[intecrisis]

Wisp (reid dunn) is the most amazing and underrated idm artist of all time

[Trashware]

That sure is a nice selection of great albums to go and listen to (again)

[r.pneumo]

This is a JOKE!!! Where's David Guetta??

[bondagegel]

Man, this is some lazy shit. If the list compilers honestly felt that only three artists created more than half of the genre's best albums, then why did they think the genre warranted its own list in the first place.

[ALLRED]

3:25 look how they edited him to smile after 5 seconds lol

[theonly]

I wish Prefuse 73 and Radiohead were in here too.

[th_adventures]

all of my classical childhood sounds, makes me.. huuuh

[Hasuo]

It can't be helped since it's Top 10, but the artists are too biased.
There are many underrated IDM artists out there.