Just as the title says, how did you come to find the IDM forums in the first place?
What led you here? What were you trying to find?
2 Likes
For me, I had a buddy that found it first, I think looking for tutorials or something like that. He introduced me to this place.
He showed me some of the artist releases (AI’s Gateway EP is the one I remember hearing first) and I decided to check the forums out. That’s back when all I did was lurk, because in my late teens and early twenties I had no confidence in myself or my music. Haha
Not a very interesting story, lol.
5 Likes
As a relatively new producer I was looking for somewhere friendly, informative, not belittling or full of spam. After a bit of googling around your site kept on popping up so I joined a few hours ago. I’ve been reading some posts and it seems that my instincts were correct.
Glad to be part of the IDM forum family. 
5 Likes
I think it was the summer of 2009, and I just needed a place to spam tracks to. Thankfully I got ripped a new asshole enough times back then to realize my tracks sucked, so I kept coming back
Also wanted to point out to any newcomers that we’ve all gotten gentler in our old age, lol
6 Likes
When I played some of my early tracks at DNB parties people told me “that’s more IDM than DNB” and I ended up here… 
That was way before the change to the new site but I was not very active for some time…
5 Likes
I was new at “producing” (I don’t love that term for what I do but it is the accepted shorthand). I think I’d been teaching myself with cracked software and the occasional manual reading for a year when I posted my first track to reddit’s r/techno. It was very whack, but in the midst of all the hate one guy suggested I put it up on r/experimentalmusic. My budding genius was as unappreciated there as it had been before, but one guy there did suggest I join IDMf. So I joined here and just in looking around for one night I learned more here than in a year of trying to teach myself. That was around 2013, and I’ve been here ever since.
4 Likes
It was so long ago i have no idea how i found it (probably google) but i still have the sign up email in my inbox from 2007. Forums were all the rage back then and I was probably looking for an electronic music forum to lurk in. I heard the first few releases and was blown away. I played them at parties and they were well received amongst my mates. So i formed a solid connection. I had always wanted to run a forum, even then. When RFJ offered the keys i said no, I didn’t have the time. It happened anyway. So here we are, mission accomplished 
3 Likes
Google search engine…
Wanted to learn how to make music…
Started shitposting cause other people where doing it…and i eventually stopped shitposting…
Oh and learned how to make music in the process.
4 Likes
I was invited to join/lurk this forum by a member of another forum we frequented. I did a shitty (really shitty) remix for him and he figured i could use the help in improving my sound production skills.
That member has since disappeared from the internet, to my knowledge. Which sucks, because i lost my copy of his album, and all i’ve got left is the shitty (really shitty) remix.
But i grew quite attatched to the members and artists on this page. I was always blown away by the independent releases they were consistently putting out.
Being a member of this forum has had a tremendous impact on my life, if only for their music that i still listen to, but also on my drive to continue to be creative.
7 Likes
I think I was just trying to find like minded people and to learn more in depth IDM and electronic music production. I think maybe around 2006-2008ish I started?
I seem to remember someone here turned me on to Renoise very early on here. Almost 20 years later - still trucking along.
My productions have gotten leaps and bounds better while still learning something new almost everyday.
I came back for more like minded peeps and I missed all yall.
3 Likes
I wanted to find a forum to talk about IDM production, so I typed “IDM forum” in a search engine and found this place.
3 Likes
2006 I was depressed, working in an office, freshly clean from opiates, and desperately lonely with no one around me IRL who liked the music I liked, so I google searched “losers who listen to weird music” for fun at my office job (I’m not kidding) and this place was the first google hit, so I made an account, said a bunch of stupid things and laughed my ass off. for years. rest is history I guess. It was… exactly what I needed. and frankly, nothing has changed. I love you guys.
4 Likes
One of my favorite things is that I have met so many people from this place over the past decades (and would love to meet more). You’re one of em. You are a fuckin IDMf MAD CUNT ORIGINAL GANGSTER.
Bro I’ll never forget meeting you in Houston back in 2016 and rocking out with you to Aphex and Squarepusher and so many others. You are a beam of light! So glad to see you back here <3
3 Likes
You have had a tremendous impact on my life! I will never forget how you sent me love and drum machines when my studio burned down, back in 2013, when I had to live in a pay-by-the-week motel in San Francisco and I had no clue what was going to happen to me. I’ll never forget your note along with your package: “Just keep making music.” You are an incredible person, and like @mundainmonstre, I am stoked to see you back dude.
You also are:
a mothafuckin IDMf MAD CUNT ORIGINAL GANGSTER
Love you, you sexy Canadian bitch!
5 Likes
Dawwwwwwwwwwww 
Thanks Fiddy! What a fantastic fest Day for Night was! I had such a killer time hanging out with you through out. Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Anklepants, The Butthole Surfers, many more - and then that after parties. Watching Richard Devine and Surichai wreck shop at different ends of that warehouse was bliss. Having the cops come twice during Richard Devines set for his kick drums going too danm hard - UGH! YES! Got to meet Quburus(RIP good sir) as well!!!
To add on to your “just keep making music” - I totally agree. One thing I tell my customers when getting into home recording and such is dont give up. Your gonna get frustrated. Shits not going to make sense - but keep it going and dont stop learning. So many times Ive felt hopeless about shit - but hey… fuck it! Just. Keep. Learning!
Anyways - HUGE HUGS yo! We will kick it soon! Time for me to shower then go slang some keyboards and pro audio equipment.
3 Likes
My god, that’s like my fucking dream. haha.
What is it that you do? Sounds interesting.
Also, Sorry… I feel like I’m intruding on an intimate moment, haha.
1 Like
Oh no worries yo! I work at a big family owned music shop in their Keyboard and Pro Audio Dept.
1 Like
Glitchpulser suggested i come here for like minded people yesterday so i thought i’d give it a whirl.
5 Likes
Hey @drewwest912, welcome! Technically that was me, but it’s really a community calling 
I look forward to hearing more of your music. I elevated your entry user level so you should be able to post links. Let me know if you have any questions.
2 Likes
hard RIP, I remember aphex played on of their remixes right? distant memories…
I remember almost losing my fucking mind at Josh Telefon Tel Aviv’s set where he explained to me after that he was “no longer concerned with tempos or temporal metrics in general” lmao… I think we were all high. I remember smoking a blunt with Flying Lotus… yeah Richard Devine’s “set” if you wanna call it that… that shit was weaponized, that was sonic warfare. that whole weekend was life changing. had a great time with you sir. <3 <3 <3
telefon tel aviv (im in the camo jacket getting my brains fucked out)
me and richard devine
1 Like