IDM can refer both to Intelligent dance music (aka braindance) and industrial death metal. IDM is a popular name for an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s at the end of the British rave era. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno. Stylistically, IDM tends to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than on a particular set of musical characteristics. The range of post-techno styles to emerge in the early 1990s were described variously as art techno, ambient techno, intelligent techno, and electronica. In America the latter term is now used by the music industry as a catchall to describe EDM and its many derivatives. The term IDM is said to have originated in the United States in 1993 with the formation of the IDM list, an electronic mailing list originally charted for the discussion of music by (but not limited to) a number of prominent British artists, especially those appearing on a 1992 Warp Records compilation called Artificial Intelligence. The term is still seen by some as being peculiar to the U.S. but it is routinely used by music journalists, record labels, and fans on both sides of the Atlantic.

Artists belong to the genre

	[haven]	Country: Polska / Poland / Date of establishing : 2005-01-11
	Access to Arasaka	Country: USA / Date of establishing : 2006
	Ad.ver.sary	Country: Kanada / Canada / Date of establishing : 2005
	Architect	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 1998
	Defrag	Country: USA / Date of establishing : 2000
	dISHARMONY	Country: Słowenia/Slovakia / Date of establishing : 2001
	Flint Glass	Country: Francja / France / Date of establishing : 1999
	Formalin	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 2010
	Haiku	Country: Dania / Denmark / Date of establishing : 2006
	Hecq	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 2003
	Lucidstatic	Country: Alaska / Date of establishing : 2005
	Synapscape	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 1994