IDM
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IDM: broken rhythm, deconstruction and electronic composition. IDM, glitch and microsound, breakcore and modular synthesis: the machine used to compose rather than to keep time, from melodic patterns to clicks, errors and grain.
The reference points are the Warp and Rephlex years of the 1990s (Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher), then the clicks and cuts of Mille Plateaux and Raster-Noton, the damaged CDs of Oval and the fragile guitars of Fennesz. Breakcore, from Venetian Snares on, pushed the broken beat to its extreme. Modular synthesis, with Caterina Barbieri and Keith Fullerton Whitman, brought back sequences and generative patterns that sit close to the minimalism of Terry Riley.
We file here records where rhythm is designed rather than inherited from the dancefloor: IDM, glitch and microsound, breakcore, modular synthesis. If a record keeps a techno structure but bends it, it usually goes under Experimental; if it has no beat at all, under Ambient.
New IDM records
- TUE 13.10.2026 Alva Noto — LichtstimmeAlva Noto imagines a film that exists only through sound on Lichtstimme, the first part of a diptych inspired by E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman. Thirteen concise compositions begin in a space of apparent clarity, where weightless textures and a sense of familiarity gradually give way to shifting perceptions. What first seems transparent slowly reveals its darker underside, blurring the line between recognition and uncertainty. Details: Alva Noto — Lichtstimme
- TUE 13.10.2026 Alva Noto — SchattenstimmeOn Schattenstimme, Alva Noto takes the imagined cinema of his two-part project into more unfamiliar territory. Recorded with percussionist Rainer Römer and Ensemble Modern, the second album introduces the Sixxen, whose metallic, microtonal resonances unsettle the surrounding sonic space. Drawing on the shifting identities of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman, its thirteen pieces trace a passage through fractured perception and transformation, where the strange gradually becomes part of the self. Details: Alva Noto — Schattenstimme
- FRI 09.10.2026 Grischa Lichtenberger — WavepropagationOne wave, countless events: Grischa Lichtenberger’s Wavepropagation builds entire pieces from a single oscillator, drawing melody, bass and percussion from one continuous signal. Inspired in part by the overlapping traces of life on Kyiv’s Dnipro river, the record explores how complexity emerges from a single moving form, even when waves appear to cancel each other out.Play via Bandcamp: Grischa Lichtenberger — Wavepropagation Details: Grischa Lichtenberger — Wavepropagation
- WED 07.10.2026 Lorenzo Senni — All AgesNo age limit at the door: Lorenzo Senni’s All Ages, eleven tracks on Warp Records.Play via Bandcamp: Lorenzo Senni — All Ages Details: Lorenzo Senni — All Ages
- SUN 27.09.2026 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto — 12 ConversationsTwelve conversations, and the ninth needed five parts: Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 12 Conversations, on NOTON. Details: Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto — 12 Conversations
- SAT 26.09.2026 nthng — Last Light of the SunTen tracks and an hour of daylight left, from “I Hear You” to “Flutter”: nthng’s Last Light of the Sun, on topo2.Play via Bandcamp: nthng — Last Light of the Sun Details: nthng — Last Light of the Sun
Live: IDM artists on stage
- 20:00 Alva Noto LVSO Concert Hall, Vilnius (LT) Details: Alva Noto at LVSO Concert Hall, FRI 23.10 Alva Noto brings his new audiovisual project to Vilnius, merging dystopian soundscapes, pulsing rhythms and cinematic visuals with Ken Niibori.
- 20:30 Lorenzo Senni + Marina Herlop OGR Torino, Turin (IT) Details: Lorenzo Senni + Marina Herlop at OGR Torino, SUN 01.11 Lorenzo Senni closes C2C’s 25th anniversary at OGR Torino, where fractured euphoria meets the exploratory sound worlds of Grouper, Carl Stone and Marina Herlop.
- Lorenzo Senni Lingotto, Turin (IT) Details: Lorenzo Senni at Lingotto, SUN 01.11
- Alva Noto Reethaus, Berlin (DE) Details: Alva Noto at Reethaus, SAT 07.11
- 20:00 nthng Magasins Généraux, Paris (FR) Details: nthng at Magasins Généraux, FRI 20.11 A live performance from nthng anchoring Day 1 of Hors-Sol's OUTREBLEU weekender at Magasins Généraux, alongside upsammy and Sybil.
- Lorenzo Senni Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (GB) Details: Lorenzo Senni at Institute of Contemporary Arts, THU 26.11 Unsound opens at ICA with Senni’s ecstatic precision, RP Boo’s footwork colliding with Polish oberek, and Aleksandra Słyż’s premiere of Ruins.
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Artists and labels
Alva Noto · Eomac · Grischa Lichtenberger · Lorenzo Senni · nthng · Noton · Raster · Warp Records · topo2