IDMf071 VA - IDMf Retrospective Vol. 5

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The IDMf Netlabel and Glitchpulse Records are proud to preset to you the final installment of the label's Retrospective series. Released 22nd December 2024
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Over the course of this series, we’ve traced the milestones of the IDMf Netlabel’s history. Each release has showcased treasures from our discography, while spotlighting the sounds and stories that shaped our label. Through it all, our veteran artists have reaffirmed their presence, showing that the IDMf community remains as vibrant and driven as ever.

To close this chapter, it’s only fitting to feature one of the label’s original architects. Wayne Baker, co-founder of the Netlabel and mastering engineer for several of its releases, steps into the spotlight with his latest work as SUBQUiRE. His track "Mute" brings the series full circle, weaving in a powerful Julie Andrews sample that parallels the challenges he’s faced with his own voice.

As we turn the final page, IDMf Retrospective Vol. 5 stands as both a celebration and a testament to the enduring legacy of the Netlabel, and forges a path for the exciting output that Glitchpulse Records has in store.
Track List

1. Scyn - Traveller
2. Cameron - Look
3. Proton 42 - Brain Ear J Slug
4. Manton - Daylight Moon
5. Worms of the Earth - Arupadhatu
6. IG88 - You Lost Me At Hello
7. EatTheFood - Checkpoint Five
8. Son of Akira - Pnhandler Interlude
9. Ætheros & city at worlds end - Xeno Lab 2122
10. RFJ - One Day I Will See You For the Last Time
11. Morpion - Peaked
12. SUBQUiRE - Mute
Release Credits

​IDMf071: IDMf Retrospective Volume 5
Original works composed & mixed by various IDMf artists
Mastered by Darren Ziesing at Millennium Mastering
Cover art - Wayne Baker & Nick Manton
Feature track: "Mute" by SUBQUiRE: subquire.com

The Retrospective Volumes have been curated by Nick Manton and published by Glitchpulse Records under a Creative Commons License 2024

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.glitchpulser.com/news/idmf071-va-idmf-retrospective-vol-5
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Awesome shit, excited to spin all of this, but that SoundCloud playlist only shows 3 tracks for me? Is there some shenanigans afoot?

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It’s not released yet, those are previews :slight_smile:

Tomorrow!

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Out now folks! Ill update the post with the BC and Spotify links when i get a chance.

For now:

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hey i’m gonna and warn ya.
you’re gonna shit your pants.
this fuckin release is pretty, pretty, pretty pretty PRETTAAAYYYYYYYY
pretty good, and i’m talking about the other 11 tracks, ain’t even gotten to mine. I am honored to be next to these masterpieces of audio.

I can’t believe this music comes from our fuckin idiotic dark corner of the universe.
love you guys.
enthused and elated.
Los amo mucho a todos
<3 <3 <3

sorry, I have the whole thing before you. I helped.

EDIT: as usual didn’t scroll down. SO IT’S OUT RIGHT ABOUT NOW FUNK SHOW BROTHA

CHECK IT OUT NOW

damn when it gets to IG88… you know it’s IG88

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wrote my personal touch copy for this release. yes it’s genuine. wordy af:

Hey friends, I’m stoked to share an album my buddy Nick Manton poured his heart into—seriously, one of the best things I’ve ever heard. It’s a joyous, emotional ride, and I’m so proud to have a track included in this release from Glitchpulse Records (formerly IDMf Netlabel).

Back in the day, when CDs were $25 and the music industry was all lawsuits, a bunch of us were nerding out on an obscure forum, trolling, sharing tracks, and critiquing each other’s unmastered WIPs. Somewhere in that chaos, someone said, “What if we actually released this stuff?” Enter the IDMf Netlabel. A scrappy, Creative Commons-powered platform that gave artists full control of their work while celebrating the raw, underground electronic sound we all believed in.

IDMf’s first compilation in 2008 wasn’t perfect—my submission was a brickwalled .mp3 (oops)—but it set the stage for something amazing. What started as a group of misfits grew into a netlabel that has released dozens of albums, with each new phase bringing more talent and ambition. Now, as Glitchpulse Records, this legacy is evolving, and I’m here for it.

This album is a tribute to the journey we’ve been on—a mix of genres, ideas, and raw talent that doesn’t sound like anything else out there. I hope you’ll check it out. Link below.

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Long version

hey guys, the album my friend Nick Manton has worked really really hard to put together is probably one of the best things I’ve ever heard. It is a joyous and emotional journey. please take a moment to listen to this amazing collection of Glitchpulse Records (formerly IDMf Netlabel – Nathan Schwartz’s and my original vision. I am so proud to be included in this process.

there was a time where CDs cost $25 and the entire corporate music conglomerate was suing the shit out of anyone who tried to make or listen to music, i mean… basically. I remember the first moment I heard about what a “Creative Commons” license was (Creative Commons ). For the most part, we were posting lulzy memes and trolling each other and being idiots, but we were also producing electronic music. And mind you children, this is before there was such thing as EDM. waves cane Anyway, within the traffic of our forum’s style of prepubus Internet v1.0 hilarity (with heartbreaks and traumas in between), I’m going to reiterate that music was being made. It was fresh, underground, and to be quite frank, it didn’t sound like other stuff we heard out there.

So there we were in the Listening Booth. We all were posting unmastered WIPs, giving each other peer critique, learning more about composing music and producing it, and I remember there was this point someone, can’t remember who, said something like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we released this somehow?” We weren’t like, on the path of being played on the mainstream radio or anything, but there was something we all universally felt. We were multi-genre’d, versatile, and maybe a bit punk rock in a weird nerdy way, but also yeah that nerd part. But our music felt it like deserved to be packaged and put out there, somehow.

A Netlabel was born. The IDMf Netlabel. People sometimes still ask me “what’s a netlabel?” It’s literal, it’s a label formed and procured and manufactured mainly via the internet. There are many different ones. We were not the first. Netlabels were a thing back then. I honestly think they are still a thing now.

Back in 2006/7/8ish, a number of us realized and agreed that hey maybe we should put a compilation of sorts together. Package it. Master it. Share it, put it out there for free under the Creative Commons license. Attach complete control over the music to the artist. Act as a celebration for this unique conduit of music that exists, that somehow exploded in the darkest corner of the internet, out of nowhere. Well… which one us sorry suckers was going to do it? lol, you’re looking at him, at least for the beginning part. I am proud of the stuff we put out in that era. Those who I started it with were the ones who set a very high standard of quality.

I won’t lie, none of it was my idea; it was definitely Nathan’s and possibly Matt’s and Stu’s. I kinda came in a little later then stamped my mark on the first 30 or so releases. My submission on IDMf001 was a terrible mixdown. I barely recall that far back but pretty sure I submitted my track Ibix for that compilation as a shitty brickwalled .mp3 file. Somehow Matt used his magic and found a way to include it. Man, I have learned so much about making music since then. We all have right?

When we started IDMf we didn’t know what we were doing or where it was going, well maybe that’s just me. I do know we aspired to celebrate the apparent talent of a special online community, full of a rotating bunch of delinquent electronic music producers who remember what it was like back BEFORE IT WAS COOL. hahaha. kidding. but not. That doesn’t matter.

IDMf Netlabel has gone through a number of hands and trajectories since the first compilation was released and it’s seen its ups and… nah, I will not say lows, because I think there are treasures in those so called “lows”.

There are so many stories behind the catalog of this label. I am proud to have been and continue to be a part of it. The direction it is going impresses me beyond words. There’s so much talent here. I for one am excited to see the transition to Glitchpulse Records take full effect and see it in its glory. There is a lot of really cool music ahead. Stay tuned. Thanks for letting me share. link is down there

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I just got around to doing this…

SUBQUiRE - MUTE

Sample Credits

From freesound.org:

Julie Andrews:

  • Segment from “Barbara Walters Interviews Julie Andrews - ABC February 12, 1999
  • Segment of Good Morning Television with Lorraine Kelly (ITV, UK) First Aired: November 2005
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Igloo mag reviewed this one:

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Oh nice. Haven’t been here for a bit and a new drop. Thumbed through a few bits and already liking*. Will give a proper whirl this week. Congrats everyone, top to bottom.

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Oh nice, just noticed the artwork as well. That’s neat. Artwork a found thing or someone actually cook that up as well?

EDIT - Nvm, I see the credits. You guys did a good job. Curious the process, with the both of you. Layering one’s stuff over the other bits?

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The image is the output of Midjourney with a painstaking amount of prompting from Wayne to match the vision we had. I just directed, and did the themed borders on all the covers.

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It’s a pretty neat cover. NGL Props on that as well, to you guys.

I’m actually jamming a mix of the tracks right now to infuse a jam session. :slight_smile: Having fun listening to and messing around, if you will.

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cannot believe it’s almost been a year. this album, or at least being invited to be involved in it, it saved my soul in a way, i have that bastard Nick @Manton to thank… dense motherfucker assigning me tasks and delegating projects to help him blast out this series of 5 IDMf compilations. which no one told him to do, he just decided to do it, then eventually also decided to infect me with that stress.

it was only appropriate though. a long time ago, around the time i was in new orleans… i was in the mind state of “FUCK THIS PLACE. I’M OUT” – pertaining to IDMf. Nick idk how it happened. maybe it was late night vox messages with RFJ, or maybe it was me getting on a stupid drunken rant and then you sending a response setting me straight, without you owing me it at all, you revealing your vision of transforming IDMF netlabel into Glitch Pulse Records.

Man I talked so much shit. Glitch Pulse? Lol what? did you come up with that? What’s wrong with the name “IDMf NETLABEL” anyawy? My hair’s a bird. not sure of the vailidity of your argument. lmao

in the end you were right. the process of composing/producing “MUTE” for retro5 and being involved in the creation and seeing it through, it was such an experience for me. and as my voice had just healed, and me having so much fuckin musical energy, i’ll always remember candi aussie ass being like well you know, your track is due in two weeks fucker.. anyway it all worked out.

the funny thing is, i love MUTE so much and it’s an important moment/track for me. it represents this 12 month period of my life where i literally could not communicate with my vocal cords. Idk in a way, Nick kinda helped pull me out of it and heal in an important way, by inviting me in to his vision of Glitch pulse.

I’m sold, i’m a fan, i’m forever here. it’s changed me. it was this combo of passing a “torch” emotionally that had literally been passed on before that (relinquishing control, making peace and fostering trust that Nick wouldn’t completely fuck it up (he didn’t)

he also also encouraged me, telling me (i’m paraphrasing) something along the lines of "dude you started the idmf netlabel, it’s transitioning to become Glitch pulse, YOU did this, you realize this has to be your track slot right?! you can’t NOT have that role.

Nick knows that I probably sent him about 20 different “final versions” for Mute. this is a special track. It wouldn’t have happened unless told me that he really thought it would fit into the whole scheme.

Anywho… this is like… version 9 or 10? the “final” version sounds nothing like this. this is really stripped down and raw. I thought it’s only appropriate that I reveal in some way how much went into this work. wouldn’t have happened with Manton allowing me unleash my struggle on him, day in day out. it’s really weird to be pressured by a guy who runs the label you started, way back when you pressured people to submit music to that same label, sometimes have to give em a little slap and tell them to buck the fuck up, make the music and stop being a bitch because the deadline was days and days ago.

anyway, that’s what nick did for me. i think he’s an integral part of what subquire is now, because if not for him giving me a little slap and telling me to stfu and make the music that is already there in my heart, stop stalling also a 20 minute lecture about why deadlines and meeting them are important… MUTE would not have happened.

it’s kind of cool to hear the elements stripped down in this.

long live GPR

anyway i drank my feelings tonight oh well. looked cute might delete later lol BFK would you help me out here please

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This better be your MTV award speech cause I would fly to Cali to see that. :squinting_face_with_tongue:

I’m touched bro, thanks. Now get back to making tunes and quit waffling.

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