- Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures. He is a prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. - Amon Tobin
Amon Tobin is a musician, DJ, and producer known for his massive sound walls of sampled jazz fused with drum and bass, intelligent dance music and samba. - Richie Hawtin
Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid-2000s. - Apparat
Apparat is a German electronic musician (Sascha Ring) living in Berlin and one of the owners of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats". Recent music is closer to glitch or IDM, accompanied with classical string instruments and other sounds. The website apparat.net features a few Max/MSP patches, presumably used by him. - Chris Clark
Chris Clark is an English electronic musician creating in the genre of IDM currently signed to Warp Records. With the 2006 release of "Throttle Furniture", he shortened his artist name to Clark. "Throttle Furniture" and "Body Riddle" were both three years in the making, and it is clear during this time Clark has refined his sound. The production on these albums is exceptional, manipulating live drum samples to construct complex beats, … - Robert Rich
Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, USA. With a discography spanning over 20 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, new age, and even IDM music. - Lackluster
Lackluster is the stage name of Esa Juhani Ruoho, who has also recorded as Esa Ruoho, Can'o'Lard (defunct), Kökö and the Köks and XLLV (defunct). Lackluster is formerly known as the chiptune musician, Distance, part of the demoscene group, The Planet of Leather Moomins (TPOLM). Esa has lived most of his life in Helsinki, Finland, but has also, since 2000, travelled to Regina, … - Otto von Schirach
Otto von Schirach is an IDM and breakcore artist from Miami, Florida. He is of Cuban/German decent. He has released most of his work on the Schematic and Beta Bodega labels, and was featured in the 2002 documentary "Electro-Dziska". Otto's live performances include outfits, masks and props, and he has toured with the band Skinny Puppy. He is also credited on the Skinny Puppy albums "The Greater Wrong Of The Right" and "Mythmaker". - Proem
Proem, otherwise known as Richard Bailey, is a 31-year-old musician living in Austin, Texas. He has been releasing music since 1999 on labels like Merck, n5MD, and Hydrant. He started experimenting with electronic devices at an early age, using thrift store turntables, some tape decks, a few cheap Casio SK-5s, and some circuit bent bargain bin keyboards. He currently sequences in Fruityloops, using a number of VST plugins, such as Kontakt and Reaktor. - Scott Herren
Guillermo Scott Herren is a hip hop and IDM producer and artist, currently based out of Barcelona and signed to Warp Records. Herren releases music under various aliases, most notably Prefuse 73, Savath and Savalas, Delarosa and Asora and Piano Overlord. He began his career DJing at MJQ, a small night club in Atlanta, and then began working in commercial studios but soon branched out into his own music. - Brothomstates
Brothomstates is the stage name of Lassi Pekka Nikko, a Finnish IDM musician. He also used to produce music in the demoscene under the moniker of "Dune" in the demogroup "Orange". His works are mostly downtempo or ambient, but he is also well known for his complex and abstractive melodies and odd sounding drum programming. - Ryoji Ikeda
Japan's leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda, focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself. For the past six years, Forma has produced and toured all of Ikeda's exhibition and performance projects worldwide. Since 1995, Ikeda has been intensely active through concerts, installations, and recordings, integrating sound, acoustics and sublime imagery. - Beaumont Hannant
Beaumont Hannant is a musician, producer and DJ from York, England. His music and contributions extend to ambient techno, IDM, hip hop and indie rock. Hannant has received positive critical reviews and was named one of "The Faces of '94" by music magazine Select. Hannant became a hip-hop/electro DJ in 1986 after witnessing the 1986 World Mixing Championships. During 1993-1994 he released several solo albums rooted in ambient techno. - Cerebral
Cerebral (born Matthew Wingate Tuozzo on July 6, 1974 in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania) is an American musician who records a variety of genres, but concentrates mostly in the range of ambient and IDM genres. Like most IDM acts, Cerebral's music juxtaposes elements of warm melodies with harsh rhythms, mixes analog and digital sounds together, and spans a variety of tempos and styles. - Mark Bell
Mark Bell is a musician and producer of electronic house music who, as well as being a member of the pioneering IDM group LFO on Warp Records, has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Björk and Depeche Mode, for whom he took on the production duties for the entire "Exciter" album. He had an important role in Björk's 1997 album Homogenic. He did collaborate later with the icelandic singer. - Push Button Objects
Push Button Objects (or PBO) is the alias of Edgar Farinas, a producer of IDM. His style of music uses hip-hop as a underlying foundation, but with the addition of DSP-processed sounds, unusual samples, elements of electro, Detroit techno, Miami bass, jungle, and other musical rudiments somewhat alien to the genre of hip-hop, but with unique results. PBO's sound is comparable to his contemporaries like Prefuse 73 and Dabrye. - Vector Lovers
Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records (his current label) is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music (IDM) and electro genres. His music has been compared to and is influenced by such acts as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode. As Vector Lovers, Wheeler released several singles and EP's, … - Keith Fullerton Whitman
Keith Fullerton Whitman is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for "Croatian"). His works under the Hrvatski moniker hewed closest to the drill and bass facet of IDM and were his primary musical outlet in the mid- to late-1990s. - Clint Mansell
Clint Mansell (born Clinton Darryl Mansell, 7 January 1963, in Coventry, England) is a Golden Globe nominated musician and composer. - Casino Versus Japan
Casino Versus Japan is the recording name for Erik Kowalski (born May 5, 1973), a United States-based electronic musician who produces intelligent dance music (IDM for short). As a young boy in Wisconsin he recorded episodes of television series "Miami Vice", sampling Jan Hammer's music, later collecting them, and playing them over the backdrop of other musical genres. - Duran Duran Duran
Duran Duran Duran is a breakcore band consisting of Ed Flis, Michael Chaiken, and Tony Gabor. Philadelphia-based Ed Flis is the main working member and does most live shows by himself. Like most breakcore Duran Duran Duran's music is reminiscent of the rave music of the early 1990's. However, Ed Flis admits to not being heavily influenced by the rave scene himself, … - Nuxx
Nuxx is a Goa Trance band stationed in Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently a one-man effort, and he even ventures so far as to create music of other styles, like Dub and IDM. He can also be known as I-Konn. - Exile
Tim Exile (or Exile) is the recording alias of Tim Shaw, a producer and performer of electronic music spanning drum and bass, IDM, breakcore and gabber. - Capitol K
Capitol K (A.K.A. Kristian Robinson) is an electronic musician whose music often combines lo-fi, rock, IDM and indie-pop. Born in Malta and raised in Dubai, Brunei and England, and now based in London, Capitol K is best known for folktronica single "Pillow". Robinson also created and runs the Faith and Industry record label, which has released recent Capitol K material. - Solvent Amm
Solvent is the stage name used by electronic producer and remixer Jason Amm. Although his music has been included in the electroclash movement (as his track "My Radio" appeared on Ghostly International's 2002 compilation album "Disco Nouveau"), many of Solvent's tracks fall under the intelligent dance music or electropop genres. With partner Gregory DeRocher (who records his own music using the pseudonym Lowfish), … - Luke Chueh
Born in Philadelphia, but raised in Fresno, Luke Chueh (pronounced CHU) studied graphic design at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obipso where he earned a BS in Art & Design (Graphic Design concentration). He was employed by the Ernie Ball Company , working in-house as designer/illustrator where he created several award winning designs and was featured in the design annuals of Communication Arts and Print Magazine . - Saskrotch
Saskrotch is the Internet alias of Nigel Shields (b. January 9, 1985), an electronic music artist who specializes in breakcore music, as well as IDM and chiptune recordings. He frequently uses 8-bit music as the foundation of his recordings. His music is released under his self-owned record label, "Give Daddy the Knife", under he which he also releases music by other artists working in similar genres. - Lusine
Lusine (also L'usine and Lusine ICL) is Texan Jeff McIlwain, an ambient/IDM musician. He currently lives in Seattle. - Martin Brandlmayr
Martin Brandlmayr is an Austrian percussionist, drummer, composer and electronic artist. He is widely recognized for his work in a variety of so-called "post-rock" bands, namely Radian, Trapist, and Autistic Daughters, among others. He is considered to be one of the most innovative drummers active in the current avant-music scene today, … - Atomly
atomly, real name Adam Lee, is an electronic music producer from Chicago. He is known for making dubstep, grime, techno, IDM, drum and bass and breakcore. In addition to producing music, he runs his own record label, atomiq, and has released music on various other labels. He is also the co-founder and champion of the first, and maybe only, Bacon-Off. - Minisystem
Minisystem (Jeffrey Lee) is a Canadian solo electronic musician and molecular biologist based in Toronto. His music is produced almost entirely with analog synthesizers and drum machines. His debut album, "Madingley", was released in 2006 on Toronto's Noise Factory Records. Minisystem is often defined in contrast to Intelligent dance music and glitch. - Phuq
Phuq is an English producer of Breakcore / Gabber / IDM and various other styles of experimental electronic music based in Essex, UK. Phuq started producing improvised industrial music and noise music (around 1995), using found objects, tape loops and the like, under the moniker Destroy All Girls (amongst various anagrams of this name). From 2000 - 2004 he produced more melodic / traditionally structured, … - Tipper
Tipper (real name Dave Tipper) is a British producer and DJ specialising in nu skool breaks, electronica, and trip hop. Although mostly known in the breakbeat scene, Tipper's output includes strong hints of electro and idm amongst other styles. He is known for his interest in extreme bass frequencies, with his releases often including lengthy subbass test tones at the end. He, and likeminded people from his label Fuel Records, … - Travis Stewart
Travis Stewart is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck Records. His debut album was released under one of his aliases, Syndrone. The style of which could best be described as tracking Autechre stylized glitch but adding a bit of venous melody. Syndrone's debut, "Triskaideka" started off small but within a matter of years sold out of 1000 copies and was soon licensed by a respected European IDM label called Djak-Up-Bitch. - Dalezy
Dalezy is one of the stage names of Ronny Engmann (these days better known as Rengmann). He is a Chiptune-, Electronica- IDM- and Dark ambient-Artist since the early 1990s. Rengmann has been in the demoscene for more than a decade, having made music using the various monikers Dalezy, The Unconsciousness and Animal on C64, Amiga and IBM PC for groups such as Scoopex, Rebels, Creators, Superior Art Creations, Radical Rhythms, … - Yuppster
Yuppster is the stage name of Matthew Kuebrich, an IDM/chiptune producer based out of San Francisco, CA (formerly Chicago). - Xenotone
Xenotone is a one-man Techno/IDM project from Newcastle, UK. He has released one self-titled album, "Xenotone", on Raccoon Raver Records. - Diefex
Diefex is a junglist from the Philadelphia suburbs. His electronic music, which originally started as digital hardcore, eventually evolved into something now known to be called neurofunk. Also adept at techstep, neurostep, IDM, glitch, Diefex edits and tweaks all original samples to give his music a unique sound. - Cronfrax
Cronfrax is a one-man Techno/IDM project from Newcastle, UK. He has released one EP on his own record label, Raccoon Raver Records, called "Cronfrax". - Tomo Yasuda
Tomo Yasuda (better known as Tomo) is a Japanese-American electronic musician, who is based out of San Francisco. He has recorded as a solo artist, and as a member of the bands The Boy Explodes and hey willpower. Tomo's first recorded release was "Death Rock Booty Call" (2003), with his band The Boy Explodes. This project included singer Shane Frink and drummer Ryan Brundage, …
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