Top IDM Albums
Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
381
 Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Ambient Techno 1992
2
398
 Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children Ambient Techno 1998
3
667
 Flying Lotus Cosmogramma 2010
4
735
 Boards of Canada Geogaddi 2002
5
763
 Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album 1996
6
1148
 LFO Frequencies Techno 1991
7
1169
 Aphex Twin Syro 2014
8
1283
 Autechre Tri Repetae 1995
9
1487
 Flying Lotus Los Angeles Wonky 2008
10
1545
 Jlin Black Origami Footwork 2017
11
1567
 Jon Hopkins Immunity Microhouse 2013
12
1820
 Aphex Twin I Care Because You Do 1995
13
1895
 Black Dog Productions Bytes 1993
14
1926
 Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes 2012
15
1968
 Mouse on Mars Iaora Tahiti Ambient Techno 1995
16
2205
 Autechre Incunabula Ambient Techno 1993
17
2236
 Actress R.I.P. 2012
18
2264
 Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest Ambient Techno 2013
19
2366
 Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives Glitch Hop 2001
20
2422
 Aphex Twin Drukqs 2001
21
2446
 The Sabres of Paradise Haunted Dancehall Ambient 1994
22
2826
 Arca Mutant Deconstructed Club 2015
23
2921
 Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things Drill and Bass Drum and Bass 1996

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher Glitch Hop Experimental Hip Hop 2003
Autechre Amber Ambient Techno 1994
Leila Like Weather Indietronica 1998
Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy Drill and Bass 1997
Apparat Walls 2007
Mouse on Mars Autoditacker 1997
Holden The Inheritors 2013
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs Glitch Hop Experimental Hip Hop 2019
Floating Points Crush 2019
Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra of Bubbles Glitch Pop 2006
Moderat II Futurepop 2013
Arca Xen Glitch Hop Wonky 2014
Flying Lotus Flamagra Glitch Hop Nu Jazz 2019
Actress Ghettoville 2014
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase 2005
Luke Slater Freek Funk Techno 1997
The Sabres of Paradise Sabresonic Ambient Techno 1993
JPEGMAFIA Veteran Glitch Hop Industrial Hip Hop 2018
Objekt Flatland 2014
Gold Panda Lucky Shiner 2010
Clark Clark Techno 2014
Loraine James For You and I Glitch 2019
Laurel Halo Chance of Rain Techno 2013
Moderat III Indietronica 2016
Autechre NTS Sessions 1-4 2018
Autechre elseq 1-5 2016
Modeselektor Happy Birthday! 2007
Nathan Fake Drowning in a Sea of Love 2006
Moderat Moderat 2009
Baths Cerulean Glitch Hop Glitch Pop 2010
Gold Panda Good Luck and Do Your Best Microhouse 2016
Objekt Cocoon Crush UK Bass 2018
Autechre Exai Experimental 2013
Modeselektor Monkeytown UK Bass 2011
Call Super Arpo 2017
Autechre Oversteps Ambient 2010
Aphex Twin Collapse EP 2018
Death Grips Government Plates Glitch Hop Abstract Hip Hop, Deconstructed Club, Industrial Hip Hop 2013