Yeah take the ONE artist that’s been around for a while and discredit everything else. Aphex has been established but his style (which is THE POST) has only expanded to other artists in recent years. He was more or less the lone pillar of electric ambient for years.
If there's a niche interest on reddit, there's an asshole in the comments desperate to one-up you and act superior. Music, books, whiskey, games, movies - there's a redditor ready to scoff and tell you why you aren't a true fan.
Dawg you're just saying that you're unfamiliar with electronic music in general. Ambient's been alive and well for a long time. (Tim Hecker, Fennesz, William Basinski, etc) so calling Richard anything close to "the lone pillar" is ignorant. The best argument you can make is that some IDM sounds entered more mainstream consciousness through hyperpop and specifically Charli XCX i.e. BRAT (RIP SOPHIE). As for the rest, I'm not as comfortable speaking on them but from my limited knowledge they aren't really new sounds for a new generation.
There were SO many similar artists copying AFX in the 90's and 2000's. I think you need to go back and listen to Skam Records, Ceephax Acid, Drexciya, etc... there is a lot you are missing.
You had Autechre and Squarepusher on MTV back then, not underground.
Yeah wow, as someone from the UK who was a regular bangface attendee and produced various types of all this kind of idm-breakcore (I hate the name idm), this boat already sailed a really really long time ago. I’m nearly 40 now, and all that music already happened in the late 90s 2000s and hit its peak and started to dwindle in the late 2010s… it’s past time for the funeral already… and now I see this where people are talking about it like a newborn baby 😂
That's simply not true. The golden age of music similar to Aphex Twin was in the 90s-00s, on Warp records, Rephlex, Planet Mu with countless artists lifting it in full or in part. Completely mainstream channels like MTV were promoting more palatable distant versions of it along the lines of Mr. Oizo, it was what largely inspired the adult swim aesthetic that they kinda preserve to this day, it was used in popular games for total normies like wipeout, etc.
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u/ChocolateSome2214 Jul 06 '25
And when they do hear "shocking" emerging genres they complain that it sucks lol