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emd

Last updated: Tue Oct 21 2025 06:18:32 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

EMD encompasses experimental and avant-garde music that pushes beyond conventional song structures, embracing noise, abstraction, and unconventional sound sources. This tag captures artists who prioritize sonic exploration over accessibility, often incorporating elements of industrial, glitch, improvisation, and electronic manipulation. The music challenges listeners with its raw textures, dissonant harmonies, and deliberate rejection of mainstream musical conventions.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
10		1970	Iannis Xenakis	Early Gurus Of Electronics	emd
37		1977	Various Artists	Alt+F4	emd
50		1977	Various Artists	Allegorical Power	emd
18		1981	Throbbing Gristle	Live Volume 2, 1977-1978
90		1983	Fred Frith	Cheap at Half the Price	emd
81		1990	Fred Frith	Step Across The Border	emd jazz
74		1993	Oval	Wohnton	ambient emd
14		1994	The Hafler Trio	How To Reform Mankind	emd
97		1994	Oval	Systemisch	ambient electronic emd
1		1995	Oval	94 Diskont	ambient glitch	glitch # 9
29		1995	Fred Frith	middle of the moment	emd ethnic field recordings instrumental jazz
93		1995-09-25	Pan Sonic	Vakio	electronic emd instrumental
84		1995-10-06	Microstoria	Init Ding	emd
96		1996	Oxbow	Serenade in red	blues rock emd experimental rock noise rock
73		1996-06	Microstoria	_Snd	emd
39		1997	AALY Trio & Ken Vandermark	Hidden in the Stomach	emd harmolodic new thing	harmolodic # 73 new thing # 76
62		1997	Alan Lamb	Night Passage	emd pagan	pagan # 47
65		1997-04	Microstoria	Reprovisers	ambient emd glitch idm
33		1997-09	Fennesz	Hotel Paral.lel	glitch
17		1997-11-01	Mika Vainio	Interiors	emd
46		1998	Aube	Pages From the Book	christian dark ambient electronic emd noise
41		1998-01-20	Oval	Dok	glitch ambient
63		1998-05-19	David Tudor	Rainforest	electronic emd
79		1998-10-13	Birchville Cat Motel	Siberian Earth Curve	emd
48		1999	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	The Mirror Man Sessions	psychedelic rock
59		1999	Thuja	The Deer Lay Down Their Bones	emd
72		1999	Otomo Yoshihide	Cathode	emd
20		1999-02-22	Pan Sonic	A	electronic
9		1999-09	Neina	Formed Verse	ambient emd idm
24		1999-09	Otomo Yoshihide	Otomo Yoshihide plays Takeo Yamashita	contemporary jazz emd japanese jazz
5		2000	Birchville Cat Motel	Vespertine	electroacoustic emd
12		2000-02-18	Vladislav Delay	Multila	electronic glitch	dub techno # 10 glitch # 39 ambient dub # 65
28		2000-03	Alva Noto	Prototypes	glitch electronic
70		2000-03	Radian	Tg11	emd
58		2000-05-05	Ekkehard Ehlers	Betrieb	emd
83		2000-05-24	Oval	Ovalprocess	emd
36		2000-05	Neina	Subconsciousness	ambient emd glitch idm
55		2000-09-27	Microstoria	model 3, step 2		organic electronica # 91
4		2001	Uri Caine	Bedrock 3	emd
22		2001	Ekkehard Ehlers	Ekkehard Ehlers Plays	emd
31		2001	No-Neck Blues Band	Sticks & Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me	emd
38		2001	Black Dice	cold hands EP	emd
66		2001	Double Leopards	A Pebble in Thousands of Unmapped Revolutions	emd
27		2001-01-19	Pan Sonic	Aaltopiiri	electronic
16		2001-08-21	Ikue Mori	Labyrinth	emd
21		2001-08-21	Stephan Mathieu	FrequencyLib	emd
2		2002	Otomo Yoshihide	Ensemble Cathode	emd
11		2002	Jazzkammer	Pancakes	emd
26		2002	Trapist	Highway My Friend	emd
30		2002	Stephan Mathieu	Die Entdeckung Des Wetters	emd
71		2002	Eliane Radigue	Adnos I-III	drone emd
80		2002	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.	41St Century Splendid Man	emd japan japanese psychedelic rock
64		2002-01-22	Thuja	Ghost Plants	emd
56		2002-01-26	Aoki Takamasa	Silicom Two	electronic emd idm
99		2002-05	Kevin Drumm	Sheer Hellish Miasma	drone emd noise
53		2002-11-18	Thuja	All Strange Beasts of the Past	emd
32		2002-11-30	Microstoria	Invisible Architecture #3	emd
7		2003	Tony Conrad	Fantastic Glissando	emd
52		2003	Phill Niblock	Touch Food	drone emd
54		2003	Uri Caine	Dark Flame	emd
76		2003	Jack Rose	Opium Musick	emd
88		2003	Pluramon	Dreams Top Rock	emd
95		2003	Cul de Sac	Death Of The Sun	emd indie rock post-rock
91		2003-01-20	Supersilent	6	jazz
60		2003-03-01	Otomo Yoshihide	blue	emd soundtrack
67		2003-04-22	The Blithe Sons	We Walk the Young Earth	ambient emd
44		2003-06-16	Ekkehard Ehlers	Politik Braucht Keinen Feind	emd
68		2003-08-19	Steve Reich	Three Tales	contemporary classical emd
85		2003-12-20	Aoki Takamasa	Quantum	emd
3		2004	Alvin Curran	Lost Marbles	emd
45		2004	Lasse Marhaug	The Shape Of Rock To Come	emd
69		2004	Birchville Cat Motel	Chi Vampires	emd
86		2004	Chicago Underground Trio	Slon	emd
61		2004-02-17	Trapist	Ballroom	emd
92		2004-03-08	Jack Rose	Two Originals Of...	emd folk freak folk new weird america	freak folk # 17 new weird america # 67
87		2004-05-04	Throbbing Gristle	The Taste of TG	emd
98		2004-06-15	Battles	Tras	emd experimental rock
82		2004-06-22	Black Dice	Creature Comforts	noise	noise # 58
78		2004-09-14	Battles	B EP	math rock	math rock # 36
75		2004-09-28	Domenico+2	Sincerely Hot	emd
77		2004-12-22	Stephan Mathieu	The Sad Mac	ambient drone emd
13		2004-12-28	Birchville Cat Motel	Beautiful Speck Triumph 1	emd
57		2005-02-07	Bird Show	Green Inferno	emd
51		2005-02-16	Zavoloka	Plavyna	emd
35		2005-05-24	Ikue Mori	Myrninerest	emd
94		2005-09-06	Black Dice	Broken Ear Record	noise	noise # 56
42		2006-03	Bird Show	Lightning Ghost	emd
23		2006-05	This Heat	Out of Cold Storage	emd
49		2006-05	This Heat	Scala Cinema, London (Decenber 20 1979)
89		2006-06	Alva Noto	For	ambient emd
43		2006-07-25	Otto von Schirach	Maxipad Detention
25		2007-03-26	Daniel Menche	Animality	drone emd noise
19		2007-08-24	Anthony Pateras	Chasms	emd
8		2008-05-26	OFFONOFF	clash	emd noise rock
100		2008-10-03	Jun Miyake	Stolen From Strangers	choral emd	choral # 84
40		2008-10-21	Carlos Giffoni	Adult Life	emd
6		2009	Ikue Mori	Phantom Orchard	emd japan
47		2010	Fred Frith	Rivers and Tides	emd instrumental jazz
34		2015	Sun Ra	Un Mondo Eliocentrico	emd jazz
15			La Monte Young	Terry Riley - Eastern Man feat. Marian Zazeel	contemporary classical emd

Related genres

• noise
• electronic
• ambient
• idm
• glitch
• jazz
• drone
• instrumental
• contemporary classical
• improvisation