/r/IDM's 50 Classic IDM Albums List (1991-2020)

Note: No ranked ordering is intended, these are listed in the order in which we discussed these albums (you can click each album to see it's respective discussion thread).

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#/r/IDM's 35 Classic IDM Albums (1991-2009)

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#1 - Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Release Date: April 28, 1997
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#2 - Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Release Date: April 20, 1998
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#3 - Clark - Body Riddle
Release Date: October 2, 2006
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#4 - Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Release Date: November 4, 1996
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#5 - u-Ziq - Lunatic Harness
Release Date: June 30, 1997
Label: Astralwerks
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#6 - Autechre - Tri Repetae
Release Date: November 6th, 1995
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#7 - Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Far Enough
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Label: Hefty! Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#8 - Plaid - Not For Threes
Release Date: October 27, 1997
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#9 - Four Tet - Rounds
Release Date: May 5, 2003
Label: Domino Recording Company
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#10 - Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Release Date: March 14, 2005
Label: Planet Mu
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#11 - Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
Release Date: April 24, 1995
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#12 - The Black Dog - Spanners
Release Date: January 16, 1995
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#13 - Bola - Soup
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Label: Skam Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#14 - Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Label: Ninja Tune
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#15 - Autechre - LP5
Release Date: July 13, 1998
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#16 - Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#17 - Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#18 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Release Date: February 13, 2002
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#19 - Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
Release Date: February 13, 2002
Label: Faitiche
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#20 - Arovane - Tides
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Label: City Centre Offices
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#21 - Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Release Date: October 22, 2001
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#22 - Lusine - Serial Hodgepodge
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Label: Ghostly International
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#23 - Tipper - Surrounded
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Label: Myutopia Recordings
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#24 - The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Release Date: April 15, 1991
Label: Big Life
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#25 - Richard Devine - asect:dsect
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Label: P-Vine Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#26 - Autechre - Amber
Release Date: November 7, 1994
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#27 - The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Release Date: October 18, 1996
Label: Astralwerks/Virgin
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#28 - Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#29 - Orbital - Orbital 2
Release Date: May 24, 1993
Label: Internal/FFRR
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#30 - Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker
Release Date: August 18, 1997
Label: Too Pure
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#31 - Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Release Date: June 3, 1996
Label: Rephlex Records
Stream: YouTube

#32 - The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Label: Sublight Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#33 - Autechre - Confield
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#34 - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Release Date: November 9, 1992
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#35 - Various Artists - Artificial Intelligence
Release Date: July 6, 1992
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

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#/r/IDM's 15 Modern Classic IDM Albums (2010-2020)

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#1 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Label: Domino
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#2 - Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#3 - Autechre - Exai
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#4 - Clark - Clark
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#5 - Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#6 - Aphex Twin - Syro
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#7 - Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#8 - Skee Mask - Compro
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Label: Ilian Tape
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#9 - Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Label: Text Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#10 - Rival Consoles - Persona
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Label: Erased Tapes
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#11 - Autechre - elseq 1-5
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#12 - Plaid - Polymer
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#13 - Floating Points - Crush
Release Date: October 18, 2019
Label: Ninja Tune
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#14 - Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube

#15 - Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello
Release Date: January 31, 2020
Label: Warp Records
Stream: Spotify - YouTube