r/idm

I have a clinical aspergers diagnosis and idm blew my mind the moment I first heard it and I never went back. It's sometimes like I'm on drugs when I listen to it, especially in my car if the windows are up and the music sounds better. It feels otherworldly, like it feeds drugs into my brain from my ears and the creative juices start flowing big time. It's when I get my best creative ideas and my synesthesia goes crazy (autists are more likely to have it. I have it, and Aphex has it)

And yet, I never met anyone who is remotely close to loving it. At best, they like the softer idm that is less glitchy and with simplistic percussion, but not enough to want to listen to it again. Everyone hates the harder stuff, like drill and bass, and wouldn't consider the generative and experimental material like post-1998 Autechre as music.

I know about the guy whose autism assessor asked him if he liked idm, and I know that it's a running joke here that we call each other autists, but how much truth do you think there actually is to it?

Are you a diagnosed autist? If not, do you even suspect it? Do you rule it out completely? Just curious.

Since the start of 2026, the music world has changed
AI Music has now made up at least 28% up to 40% of daily uploads onto these platforms, and a decent chunk belongs to people pushing out AI music solely for profit over any form of creativity
 
With the addition of Spotify "carefully" labeling real musicians who do not use AI Generation, their requirements have left many musicians who don’t use any AI Generation and just below this requirement in the dust.

 
I feel that two additions to both of these platforms will let users / listeners who use these music platforms daily be able to fully understand in a complete transparent way on WHO they are listening to and WHAT they are listening to.
 
If there is enough evidence to show that the artist on this platform is AI Generated and not a real-life musician, it should have an "May Contain AI Generation" label on the artist profile itself, similar to how Spotify now has "Verified By Spotify" so the listener understands that the person behind the songs they are listening to with full transparency.
If there is enough evidence to show that the song on this platform is AI Generated, it should be listed next to the artist name on these platforms with "May Contain AI Generation", so if a listener finds the song on a "Mix" or a "Radio" they are listening to, they are able to view that the song could have AI Generation involved with it.
Considering that both of these platforms have allowed AI Generated Music to be put on the platform and have started to implement a crude method to verify musicians who don’t use AI at all, we need to at least have full transparency that the track was either made by a real human or made by an AI or an Hybrid AI/Human track

seems appropriate to post here.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_m1pvD1-n4I-LSwTp65YhQdO2nWdTTQABk&si=9di\_fmj98XtOhsac

Akira Kosemura - Tale
Frog Pocket - Frog And The Haar
Entidad Animada - Microcielo
Loom & Thread - Spheres
Chessie + Contriva - Lunar White
Laura Kampman - Flute Song
Emil Mark - Op
Kettel - Secret Mersken
Oneohtrix Point Never - I Only Have Eyes For You
GAS - Untitled
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Memory Strands
Biosphere - Arafura
cLOUDDEAD - I Promise Never To Get Paint On My Glasses Again (2)
Christ. - Round The Rigg
Nathan Fake - Sunlight On Saturn
Alexandre Klinke - Pindorama
Mikael Fakesch - Surfaise (The Trade Winds Mix By BoC)

https://soundcloud.com/paranoidtxt/paranoid-waiting-for-inferno